Is there a library that implements the Debug / inspect functionality similar to the Rust `inspect`? ...

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[reactormonk]

Is there a library that implements the Debug / inspect functionality similar to the Rust inspect? Where you get a full dump of a class, not just the toString

[Klitos Kyriacou]

You could use Json.serializeToString from the kotlinx.serialization library. If you don't want to use that, there's ToStringBuilder + RecursiveToStringStyle from Apache commons.

[MR3Y]

You can implement a simple compiler plugin that calls IrModuleFragment.dump() on any class/file which should give you the full dump of the file, see: https://blog.bnorm.dev/writing-your-second-compiler-plugin-part-2 for a reference

[reactormonk]

That's a neat way to go about it ^^, is that compiler plugin available as library?

[reactormonk]

Probably requires some additional smithing to be cool to use.

[dmitriy.novozhilov]

There is no IR in runtime, so plugin approach won't work. Some kind of serialisation is a good solution

[MR3Y]

Thanks for clarifying, I missed that.