Is it possible to get input data onto <play.kotlin...

# advent-of-code

[Marcin Wisniowski]

Is it possible to get input data onto play.kotlinlang.org somehow? That would be a nice way to share runnable solutions.

[Jakub Chrzanowski]

I doubt that – HTTP requests are blocked, there’s no possibility to upload any external resources.

[Marcin Wisniowski]

What is the proper place for such a feature request?

[Jakub Chrzanowski]

youtrack https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=KTL&amp;c=visible%20to%20jetbrains-team&amp;c=Type%20Feature&amp;c=Subsystem%20Kotlin%20Playground

[Marcin Wisniowski]

No permission to create issue in project kotlinlang.org

😕

[Jakub Chrzanowski]

Oh, please post it in KT then – I’ll pass it forward.

[Michael Böiers]

What do you mean? You can always put the data into a multi-line string literal. Or define a fun that returns it. That way you can put this fun at the bottom of the file, where it isn’t visually distracting anybody.

[Marcin Wisniowski]

@Jakub Chrzanowski I found the issue already exists: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-46705
It could be moved to the proper project though, if that makes sense.

[Jakub Chrzanowski]

CC @Sebastian Aigner

[Michael Böiers]

Here’s what I mean: https://pl.kotl.in/csOrtSEFN

[Marcin Wisniowski]

@Michael Böiers Yes you can, but it's not nice UX. Kotlin Playground already supports program arguments, for which the same case could be made.

[Marcin Wisniowski]

Cramming all the input as program arguments does work quite well actually: https://pl.kotl.in/qgKrNMM7L

[Michael Böiers]

Actually all we need here is a textarea for the input being piped to stdin.

[Marcin Wisniowski]

That's all I'm asking for. 😄