Hello everyone! Iam receiving an error when calling `KSName.asString()`. What is strange is that I h...

# ksp

[Ademir Queiroga]

Hello everyone! Iam receiving an error when calling KSName.asString(). What is strange is that I had a working version of my processor but after a few changes in the project structure (moved classes do different packages and so on) this error is now happening.

I am basically trying to get the qualified name or the simple name of a Kotlin annotation class.
Basically this is the code:

annotation as KSAnnotation
val declaration = annotation.annotationType.resolve().declaration
val qualifiedName = (declaration.qualifiedName ?: declaration.simpleName).asString()

val className = ClassName.bestGuess(qualifiedName)

If I print declaration I can already see the string “Error type synthetic declaration”

[Ademir Queiroga]

One thing to consider is that now this annotation class lives alone in it’s own file. Before, it was sharing a file with some other annotation classes in another package

[yigit]

If the declaration is an error, looks like it is but resolved

[yigit]

So maybe missing imports in the processed app?

[Ademir Queiroga]

Indeed. Right on the spot. There was some wrong/missing imports which were not updated with the refactor.

[Ademir Queiroga]

I guess as the KSP errors were happening before the compiler reached the classes without the fixed imports I did not noticed that.

[yigit]

Ksp runs before the compilation of the app

[Ademir Queiroga]

Thanks for the help @yigit! I was trying to do some annotation processing with kapt and was struggling a lot to get annotations of a property from an interface. With KSP it just works! You guys are doing an awesome job!

[Ademir Queiroga]

By the way, is there a way to log/print inside the SymbolProcessor? Tried with println() and the logger provided in the init() but no luck. I am throwing exceptions as a form of log

[yigit]

I used to use println, was work fine. Did you try running from the command line?

[Ademir Queiroga]

No, I am running it by running the gradle build task

[Ademir Queiroga]

through intellij

[yigit]

Gradlew console should show the printlns, you might need --info.

[Ademir Queiroga]

I’ll try that