We have a pretty basic preprocessor task coming (g...
# ksps
Stephan Schroeder
06/09/2021, 8:18 AMWe have a pretty basic preprocessor task coming (generating a documentation file containing all the classes/methods in the project with a special annotation). Normally I'd use KAPT, since KSP is still in Alpha, but it's unclear if KAPT will support the new compiler frontend. So how is the situation with KSP?
Does it already work with the new frontend? Since my task is so straight forward, I think, I'd be ok with updating/adapting my code through different alpha versions of KSP, or is this a bad idea?
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Big Chungus
06/09/2021, 8:48 AMKapt works with .class files, so it'll never go away. Otherwise you couldn't use java processors with kotlin.
Big Chungus
06/09/2021, 8:48 AMIt's also one of the reasons why kapt is much slower than ksp
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Stephan Schroeder
06/09/2021, 9:11 AMJetBrains doesn't seem to be equally sure about KAPT being supported with the new frontend. (I did ask in general-channel first)
Stephan Schroeder
06/09/2021, 9:12 AMI just saw that KSP seemed to have reached beta-status 13 days ago 🙂 (see https://github.com/google/ksp/releases)
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Big Chungus
06/09/2021, 9:13 AMSorry for spreading misinformation, then. Although I think it's important that kapt(or equivalent) stays so that we'd still be able to write java annotation processors in kotlin.
Big Chungus
06/09/2021, 9:13 AMMaybe ksp will eventually support that too somehow to avoid duplicated effort
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elihart
06/09/2021, 4:11 PMWe are starting to use KSP for our internal processors now. APIs should be stable now that it is in beta, although small bugs may exist - but likely not a big problem for you for a simple processor.
I would recommend using https://github.com/androidx/androidx/tree/androidx-main/room/room-compiler-processing to create your processor so you have the flexibility to switch between ksp and kapt if needed. It is working well for us so far
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Jiaxiang
06/09/2021, 4:58 PMwe are now in beta and you can expect APIs will be mostly stable
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Stephan Schroeder
06/10/2021, 2:15 PM@elihart I'm actually working serverside/jvm, not on android. I assume that ksp is applicable there as well!?
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Big Chungus
06/10/2021, 2:16 PMI can confirm that it is
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elihart
06/10/2021, 3:26 PMyes, it is not android specific. it supports jvm right now but will be multi platform eventually
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