Has anyone found a good option for multiplatform localisation/L10n? Preferably a typesafe option. I'm trying to migrate a GWT project which uses type-safe messages (http://www.gwtproject.org/javadoc/latest/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/Messages.html). Basically the GWT compiler generates the English .properties file from a messages interface - method names become property keys, annotation values provide the English strings - and also generates runtime classes to provide the translations (taken from the translated .properties files). I don't need compile-time class generation - Java/ES6 Proxy objects at runtime would be fine, but I would need a way to generate the English .properties file in the

common

(not

jvm

or

js

) module - which means I can't just use reflection to examine .class files from a Gradle plugin. I'm starting to think I need an annotation processor - but will that work in a

common

module? (Update: apparently it won't.)

Please file an issue about it — kotl.in/issue

@bashor Yes, I think I can use kapt in the

jvm

module, but once I generate the English .properties file I want to include it as a runtime resource in the

common

module. I don't think that will work unless I can generate the file from the

common

module.

As a workaround you may be able to use kapt to generate kotlin sources. Something that may be properly supported for common modules.

@pdvrieze I don't understand. Do you mean use kapt in the jvm module?

Yes, you would use kapt in the jvm module. Generate your properties file there. Then copy that to your common module.

Hmm. It seems like I would have to make some pretty big assumptions about the order things happen between the related modules.

If you generate to your js module (not the common one) you could easily add a task dependency on the kapt task in the jvm module to the packing task in your js module

Thanks @pdvrieze

Which part did you mean I should file an issue about?

@seanf I meant “supporting for l10n / i18n in general”

Created https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-21686

thank you