Is it possible to suppress errors for code to be g...

# ksp

[Kshitij Patil]

Is it possible to suppress errors for code to be generated by KSP, or even better, provide IDE suggestions for same. Say I have an interface Foo which is annotated and is supposed generate a class FooImpl. Can I get hints for that beforehand or at least suppress the error while writing the using FooImpl?

[Kshitij Patil]

Just read the Limitations section under KSP. Looks like it is not possible as of now

[Robert Jaros]

Instead of using class FooImpl directly you can use a function like getImpl<Foo>(). Such function can be easily generated by the KSP to return the correct implementation, but at the same time you can also declare an empty implementation of such function in your library. This way your application code will have no errors even before generating a class FooImpl.

[Robert Jaros]

I saw this solution first in KtorFit https://github.com/Foso/Ktorfit/blob/master/ktorfit-lib/src/commonMain/kotlin/de/jensklingenberg/ktorfit/Ktorfit.kt#L150 and also implemented this in KVision https://github.com/rjaros/kvision/blob/master/kvision-modules/kvision-common-remote/src/jsMain/kotlin/io/kvision/remote/KVRemoteAgent.kt#L491

[Kshitij Patil]

This is super cool, thanks @Robert Jaros