Is it possible to deprecate a function only for Kotlin? Imagine that I have a function in Java ```pu...

# stdlib

[diego-gomez-olvera]

Is it possible to deprecate a function only for Kotlin? Imagine that I have a function in Java

public static boolean isEmpty(@Nullable CharSequence str) {
	return str == null || str.length() == 0;
}

And I would like to deprecate it for Kotlin users. I can change it to use an stdlib function

@JvmStatic
@Deprecated("Use `isNullOrEmpty`", replaceWith = ReplaceWith("str.isNullOrEmpty()"))
fun isEmpty(str: CharSequence?): Boolean = str.isNullOrEmpty()

and it will warn Kotlin users and guide them towards the stdlib function, however it will also show as @deprecated for Java, where it is still needed (isNullOrEmpty is InlineOnly). Is it possible to show as deprecated only for Kotlin?

[Adam S]

@JvmSynthetic is the exact opposite of what you want... https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.jvm/-jvm-synthetic/

Maybe you could do something clever with @JvmName...?

[diego-gomez-olvera]

let me try...

[diego-gomez-olvera]

ah, yes. I recall something inspired by OkHttp Kotlin conversion

@JvmStatic
fun CharSequence?.isEmpty(): Boolean = isNullOrEmpty()

@JvmName("-deprecated_empty")
@Deprecated("Use `isNullOrEmpty`", replaceWith = ReplaceWith("str.isNullOrEmpty()"))
fun isEmpty(str: CharSequence?): Boolean = str.isNullOrEmpty()

[diego-gomez-olvera]

thanks!

[ilya.gorbunov]

If you have a java function, you can annotate it with kotlin.Deprecated annotation and this deprecation should have effect only in Kotlin

[diego-gomez-olvera]

ah, good to know!

[diego-gomez-olvera]

I have used

@Deprecated(message = "Use `isNullOrEmpty` instead",
		replaceWith = @ReplaceWith(expression = "str.isNullOrEmpty()", imports = ""))
public static boolean isEmpty(@Nullable CharSequence str) {
	return str == null || str.length() == 0;
}

However from the Kotlin code it appears deprecated but without the ReplaceWith suggestion