Have a question on kotlinpoet or source code gener...

# squarelibraries

[Patrik Åkerfeldt]

Have a question on kotlinpoet or source code generation in general.
I have a library project which generates sources. The code that generates sources depends on the regular sources. This can be solved by requiring the code generation to run after compileKotlin. However, this means that after first compilation of the project there aren't any compiled classes for the generated sources. I have a circular dependency where I can't run source code generation until classes are compiled but I also want the compile phase to include the generated sources.

How to best deal with this? To me it would make sense if I could first compile specified classes needed to run the code generation, then run source code generation and lastly run the "regular" compileKotlin.

[Patrik Åkerfeldt]

Maybe I need to split it up in sub projects.
a) the core part with all static source
b) code to generate sources
c) umbrella project which depends on both a and b

Now I should be able to compile a), then generated source in b), then compile b) and lastly compile c). Any usage of the library would depend on c).

[Chris Lee]

perhaps a custom task (perhaps via a plugin) to generate the code.