I’m trying to get a generated .kt file to show up ...

# dokka

[Drew Hamilton]

I’m trying to get a generated .kt file to show up in the dokkaHtml output for my Gradle Android library module and I can’t get it to work. The file is generated in build/generated/source/myDir/main, is added to android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs, and is used in source code which successfully compiles.

I’ve tried a bunch of different permutations of configuration that looks like this:

dokkaHtml {
    dokkaSourceSets {
        configureEach {
            jdkVersion.set 8

            logger.lifecycle "$project adding sourceRoot $myDirRoot"
            sourceRoot.from(file(stringsRoot))
        }
    }
}

With this exact configuration, :myModule:dokkaHtml fails due to “> NamedDomainObjectContainer#create(String) on GradleDokkaSourceSetBuilder container cannot be executed in the current context.” If I use sourceRoot( (without the .from), it doesn’t fail, but the generated class still doesn’t appear in the docs.

I’ve also tried adding it as a custom source set or setting myDirRoot as an absolute or relative path, to no avail. Any clue what I’m doing wrong?

[Marcin Aman]

Could you elaborate more on what those sources contain? Are they AIDL-s (generally content of generated folder in android)?

[Drew Hamilton]

There’s a single Kotlin object class in a .kt file in the referenced directory. (I’m not actually generating anything, just copying the file there as a POC before putting in the codegen work.)

[alex009]

i too try add generated sources into dokka output, but can't... if i just copy paste code from generated dir into main dir - all generated. but if sources in build/generated in output it will lost. i now think that in dokka internals contains autoskip build dir 😞
for me this needed with https://github.com/icerockdev/moko-network generated api classes

[alex009]

i think here reason https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/blob/master/runners/gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/org/jetbrains/dokka/gradle/toDokkaSourceSetImpl.kt#L61

[alex009]

https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/1776 i create issue about it 😞

[Drew Hamilton]

Nice find! I gave the issue a 👍