Does anyone have recommendations (pref existing ones) for gradle plugins that turn a directory of fi...

# multiplatform

[edwinRNDR]

Does anyone have recommendations (pref existing ones) for gradle plugins that turn a directory of files (text files in my case) into a .kt file with string vals holding the contents of the files?

[Big Chungus]

you mean like const val fileName = "file content"?

[Big Chungus]

That can be achieved with just a few lines of scripting. Consider this script. You can either make it executable (chmod +x script.kts ) and run it as any other script (the extension can even be removed) like ./script.kts targetDir out.kt , or alternativelly run it with kotlin compiler directly kotlinc -script script.kts targetDir out.kt

script.kts

[rnett]

You can copy that into a gradle task, too, if you want it integrated into your build (just add it as a dependency for the compileKotlin task for your source set, and ideally setup caching inputs & outputs).

[rnett]

Or use [buildconfig](https://github.com/gmazzo/gradle-buildconfig-plugin) to handle the generation

[edwinRNDR]

A custom task will do. It is just that I will be using such a task in many places, so maybe better to write it as a plugin?

[edwinRNDR]

Will have a look at buildconfig too