hm, not sure if it's a bug or not, but I don't get a primary constructor if I don't explicitly defin...

# ksp

[evant]

hm, not sure if it's a bug or not, but I don't get a primary constructor if I don't explicitly define one. Imo it would be easier if it returned a no-arg constructor in that case. Don't think there's any value in differentiating between the two right?

class Foo --> primaryConstructor is null
class Bar() -> primaryConstructor is not null

[Ting-Yuan Huang]

Currently KSP models this directly after the grammar structure. Adding a dummy constructor should be possible. On the other hand, people may sometimes want to tell the difference?

[evant]

Guess it depends on how much sugar you see here with omitting the constructor explicitly. Might be biased but the java annotation processor api does include it. Imo seems pretty similar to https://github.com/android/kotlin/issues/19

[evant]

and another one: properties in interfaces are implicitly abstract, but modifiers doesn't include abstract.

[evant]

Actually now that I've thought about it more, I think modeling directly after the grammar structure is the wrong way to go. This forces processors to build in their own logic to match the semantics of kotlin language. For example, if I want to work on public methods, I want all methods that are public, not methods that literally have the public modifier defined. Telling the difference actually sounds dangerous here since it means semantically identical programs could behave differently under the presence of a processor which seems like a very bad idea to me.

[Ting-Yuan Huang]

Yes, having everyone implement their helpers isn't a good idea. We plan to build helpers for common use cases. For this particular case (public), we have a helper already https://github.com/android/kotlin/blob/ksp/libraries/tools/kotlin-symbol-processing-api/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ksp/utils.kt#L52
and we are planning to provide more.

[Ting-Yuan Huang]

I created an issue for those implicit properties/modifiers/elements: https://github.com/android/kotlin/issues/25 Please let us know more how we can make KSP better :)

[evant]

Interestingly enough I tried to implement this myself but I don't think I can, there doesn't seem to be a way to tell if a function has a body or not