I know there is no reflection support to js and na...
# multiplatformt
thevery
09/26/2018, 4:56 PMI know there is no reflection support to js and native, but is there any way to implement dynamic proxy? I want to create something like https://github.com/square/retrofit for common code (Android+iOS)
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diesieben07
09/26/2018, 5:04 PMOn the Java side you can use the normal JDK proxy system. On the JS side you can look at how Kotlin objects are constructed and then just use native Javascript code (
jsdiesieben07
09/26/2018, 5:04 PMNot sure about native, I have not worked with that part at all yet.
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thevery
09/26/2018, 5:09 PMNative is the most challenging part actually. @olonho maybe you can help here?
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olonho
09/26/2018, 5:23 PMnot sure if this is something that could be properly implemented with native. What exactly do you want it to do? Can you write same/similar code in C?
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fabianterhorst
09/26/2018, 5:24 PMfeels free to post your github repo if you would like to open source it. Im interested in an retrofit api interface compatible rest client for kotlin native and kotlin/js. Need the same and would also implement it.
fabianterhorst
09/26/2018, 5:25 PMhow does the serialization lib does it for kotlin native
fabianterhorst
09/26/2018, 5:27 PMlooks like its directly implemented in the compiler there
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thevery
09/26/2018, 5:30 PMPlain C is not possible I think. Simple explanation of retrofit internals could be found here: https://medium.com/@jintin/retrofit-2-b0c80d5caadf
thevery
09/26/2018, 5:30 PM@fabianterhorst yes, compiler plugin (but API is not available yet as I understand)
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fabianterhorst
09/26/2018, 5:31 PMand annotation processor support for kotlin native is also not planned?
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thevery
09/26/2018, 5:35 PMj
jw
09/26/2018, 6:35 PMThe way that I'm doing it now is with an expect interface in common, an actual interface in JVM with the Retrofit annotations, and then an actual interface and implementation in JS with manual calls to
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olonho
09/27/2018, 6:37 AMright, most things achieved with reflection on dynamic runtimes ae better be done with the compiler plugins on Native
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thevery
09/27/2018, 9:02 AM@olonho any eta/plans for native plugin api?
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olonho
09/27/2018, 10:11 AMWell, some unstable form is already here, kotlinx.serialization plugin is written this way
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