Hello, I’m developing a kotlin library and using it on a java project but it is not including source...

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[André Martins]

Hello, I’m developing a kotlin library and using it on a java project but it is not including sources in my jar when I try to access it from intellij it says compiled code on the method implementations, any ideias?

[Ties]

If you turned it into a .jar and included it in a java projects, did you also make a jar that contains the source? (with for example

mvn source:jar

) ?

[André Martins]

yes I have a task for the sources Jar like following

task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
    from sourceSets.main.allJava
    classifier 'sources'
}

[Ties]

And did you also inlcude something like:

idea {
    module {
            //if you love browsing Javadoc
            downloadJavadoc = true

            //if you love reading sources :)
            downloadSources = true
    }
}

(getting this from stack overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37281153/gradle-downloading-source-dependencies, im not that good with gradle yet :P)

[Riccardo Lippolis]

I suspect because you're using from sourceSets.main.allJava it includes Java sources (which aren't there) and ignores Kotlin sources. I use the following to publish a sources jar:

java {
    withSourcesJar()
}

that way, there's no need to register a separate task (it will be done automatically by including the above), and it includes all sources

[André Martins]

This fixed my issue https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54477587/kotlin-sourcesjar-to-debug-library

[Viktor Sirotin]

I am not sure I understood your problem exactly. I am also developing a Kotlin library. You can see how it solves this problem there: https://github.com/vsirotin/si-units