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I’m using KotlinPoet, and can’t find...
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Philip Dukhov
04/14/2021, 8:26 AMHello 👋
I’m using KotlinPoet, and can’t find one feature. In the IDE I can “Reformat file”, which will use all my code styles from settings, like indents, braces, ets. Is there a way to do the same with
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jessewilson
04/14/2021, 8:37 AMNope. KotlinPoet emits files formatted well enough to be human readable, but we've decided it's not worth the code complexity or the runtime cost to do more
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jessewilson
04/14/2021, 8:38 AMDagger 2 used to spend like 50% of it's time formatting the generated code and it was a bad tradeoff when a developer is waiting
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Philip Dukhov
04/14/2021, 8:49 AMthank you for such a detailed answer!
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mbonnin
04/14/2021, 12:49 PMI was thinking of the same thing and considering using ktlint or maybe Psi directly to reformat source after it's been generated by KotlinPoet. No idea how easy/hard that is but it feels theoretically doable.