I’m having an issue with the following. I wan to get a Java generated class from my annotation. I pa...

# ksp

[António Bastião]

I’m having an issue with the following.
I wan to get a Java generated class from my annotation. I pass Int, for instance, it works, but not the class that I would like to get to generate my file.
Is this feasible, to get UserPreferences class?

@Target(AnnotationTarget.CLASS)
annotation class WithProto(val value: Array<KClass<*>>)

@WithProto(value = [UserPreferences::class, Int::class])

I based my example on this https://kotlinlang.org/docs/annotations.html#constructors,
Or would it be possible somehow cast the the kstype to an actual object?

[Jiaxiang]

if you want to get a class, maybe you can just try to use reflection? But from what you described, UserPreferences is generated, which means it is in source rather than in classpath, therefore reflection won’t work.

[Jiaxiang]

if you have a Builder class declared inside UserPreferences class, you should be able to get UserPreferences class from parent of Builder

[António Bastião]

Ah! That’s interesting. I tried that and got null . Have to check what I missed. Thanks a lot