KotlinPoet: Do you know a possibility to prevent `CodeBlock.of("${CodeBlock.of("foo")}.bar")`? This ...

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[hfhbd]

KotlinPoet: Do you know a possibility to prevent CodeBlock.of("${CodeBlock.of("foo")}.bar")? This calls CodeBlock.toString() and results into wrong imports. You must use CodeBlock.of("%L.bar", CodeBlock.of("foo")) to keep the arguments of the inner CodeBlock.

[Paul Woitaschek]

Did you already answer your own question?

[hfhbd]

No 😄 I want to prevent the wrong usage to not shoot yourself in the foot. Otherwise you can generate wrong code.

[Paul Woitaschek]

Ah your mean really to prevent it. Tests i assume 😁

[Grégory Lureau]

Just an idea, on this project I used a class to be able to concatenate strings with arguments.

"val t: %T".toFormatString(customType) +
  " = %M()".toFormatString(methodRef) + ...

The transformation in code blocks is only done in the end, so I presume it saves me for this burden. And to ensure I'm not using toString(), I throw an error from the toString method 🙂

[hfhbd]

Yeah, I thought the same. What about specifying toString(): Nothing too?

[Grégory Lureau]

Good idea!