i'd love to you use `jtsgen`, a project written in...

# multiplatform

[thana]

i'd love to you use jtsgen, a project written in java that allows to generate typscript typings from java- and kotlin classes. the problem: it uses kapt to generate them which drives it more or less impossible. i'd need to use it as common-dependency to use the annotations which isn't possible and OTOH using kapt seems to be impossible in MPP, too.
But there is a glimmer of hope left: in fact we would need this dependency only at compiletime and there is nothing left at runtime.
Can anyone imagine a way to use it?

[orangy]

As far as I know, annotation processing is the only technique right now that allows circular dependencies, i.e. using generated code from code it was generated from. If you don’t need it, you can use a lot of various generation techniques.

[thana]

i dont think i understood your answer...

[orangy]

Do you plan to use TS typings in the same project, or do you want it for external consumption?

[thana]

external consumption - the d.ts files would be a artefact of the MPP

[orangy]

Then you might go with a Gradle plugin that will consume output of Kotlin compilation and generate d.ts

[orangy]

Here is a project I’m lazily working on to generate benchmarks in MPP: https://github.com/orangy/gradle-benchmarks
I think it has everything you need, except for your specific code generation.

[thana]

but i dont want to parse the output of something. it's the sorucecode itself that is process by kapt