Hello! Could a #dokka plugin be written which could parse code like this:

class MyClass {
@Router
fun myRouter() =
  route {
    get("/hello") {
      println("hello")
    }
    get("/bananas") {
      println("bananas")
    }
}
}

And generate an output something like this?

GET /hello com.example.MyClass
GET /bananas com.example.MyClass

I stumbled upon a medium article which suggested Dokka could do this sort of static analysis.

Hi! Dokka is able to parse signatures, so it would see

@Router fun myRouter(): Route

, but I'm pretty sure it can't inspect function bodies out of the box, since it's not needed for API reference documentation

Yes. I've been trying to minimise annotations - the kotless project has managed to what I'm hoping to do, but I think that's because kotless was written by JB and is parsing the Kotlin source code directly (with something called Psi?).

You might want to play with the compiler/parser, but it has little documentation and I don't think it can be considered to be stable or user friendly Someone wrote an article outlining how to set it up and even states you can inspect function bodies: https://jitinsharma.com/posts/parsing-kotlin-using-code-kotlin/

I think I'll look for a different design. I'm not clever enough to poke about with the compiler!