Hi, I'm trying Cloudflare workers with Kotlin but ...

# gradle

[David Eriksson]

Hi, I'm trying Cloudflare workers with Kotlin but they have a traditional build.gradle that I naturally want to convert to .kts
The whole file is https://github.com/cloudflare/kotlin-worker-hello-world/blob/master/build.gradle and it is very basic except one crucial hack that merges a string with a file:

/* Kotlin js output assumes window exists, which it won't on Workers. Hack around it */
(new File("$projectDir/index.js")).text = "const window=this; " + file("$projectDir/build/distributions/${rootProject.name}.js").getText()

How do I write this in build.gradle.kts?

File("$projectDir/index.js").text

Where .text seem to be some kind of extension to the File object that is not available in Kotlin?

PS. I don't know why they use kotlin.target.browser and not target.nodejs but maybe it is to get access to org.w3c.* stuff.

Thanks!

[eskatos]

file.text => file.readText()
file.text = "some" => file.writeText("some")

[David Eriksson]

Thanks a lot @eskatos, seems obvious in hindsight but I really had googled 🙂

[gildor]

It actually looks as wrong config, not clear why they do target browser, kotlin.target.browser it probably should be kotlin.target.nodejs)

So it will not require any hacks

[gildor]

If you have some working example, I would instead try to fix it

[David Eriksson]

I will give it a try later!