I've always used IntelliJ's "replace constructor with builder" to autogenerate builder from constructor for Java classes. I don't see a way to do this for Kotlin. Is there such a feature that I'm just not seeing?
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I write kotlin DSL in separate repository. All class in this gradle project is class for my DSL. I want to be sure that all classes will be open. I now about allopen plugin, but it need annotation. I don't want to use an annotation, because I can forget to put it when adding a new class.
What's the best way to make all kotlin classes open?
Due to a third-party library requirement I have to do some finagling with annotations.
Using Kotlin, is there a way to dynamically add an annotation to class metadata at runtime like you can in Java?
e.g. something like:
clazz.annotations.set(idx, myAnnotation)
I am very new to Kotlin development and I came across custom annotation classes in the documentation.
Is there a way for me to use an annotation on a function as a way to pre-populate some variables, or to run a decorator function before running the annotated function?
Something like:
class TestClass {
#Friendly("Hello World")
private fun testFun() {
greet()
//does something else
}
}
with an annotation class like
#Target(AnnotationTarget.FUNCTION)
#Retention(AnnotationRetention.BINARY)
annotation class Friendly(val message: String) {
fun greet() {
println(message)
}
}
I know this isn't valid Kotlin code, but I can't find any examples on how to actually use values from annotations without using reflection (if it's even possible)
Please let me know if I can do something like this, and more usefully, a better resource on annotation classes for Kotlin?
To make use of your custom annotations, you need to either create your own annotation processor (and use kapt Kotlin compiler plugin) to generate some new sources (but not modify existing!) at compile time, or use #Retention(AnnotationRetention.RUNTIME) meta-annotation (which is default in Kotlin), so that they could be accessed via reflection in runtime.
#Retention(AnnotationRetention.BINARY) meta-annotation you're using is equivalent of #Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS) in java, which is mostly useless (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/5971247/13968673).
What you're trying to do with annotations (call some additional code before/after method execution) reminds me aspect-oriented programming. Take a look at Spring AOP and AspectJ frameworks, following this paradigm, and their approach for annotations processing. TL;DR: Spring AOP is processing annotations in runtime, generating proxy-classes with respectful code, while AspectJ is using its own compiler (even not an annotation processor, cause it also introduces its own syntactic extension for java language), and can generate respectful bytecode at compile-time. They both are originally java-oriented, but with some configurational pain could be used with Kotlin too.
I'd like to write a plugin for Intellij IDEA that should modify a Java and Kotlin code.
I use the method
PsiClass.getMethods()
in order to get all methods of Java and Kotlin classes. So far so good, so then I use methods like
PsiClass.add(), PsiClass.addAfter(), PsiClass.addBefore()
that all work fine once they are called on Java files, but start to throw an exception
IncorrectOperationException
once I called them on a Kotlin class.
I'd appreciate any hint on how I can modify Kotlin and Java classes (preferably using the same approach).
When you search for a Kotlin class via the JavaPsiFacade, it returns the light class which is a shallow representation that is just based on the information in the class file. In order to add PSI elements, you have to call navigationElement on it. Then, IJ will parse the source and build a full PSI tree that can be modified.
However, if the class is a Kotlin class, navigationElement will return a KtClass which is not derived from PsiClass. You will have to use the facilities in the Kotlin hierarchy to modify it. Method instances in Kotlin are also not instances of PsiMethod, but instances of KtMethod.
For analyzing Java and Kotlin sources in a common fashion there is a different syntax tree called "UAST", but for modifications you need a language-specific approach.
For example I have Java class (from external library):
class A {} // This is Java class
I want to add extension functions written on Kotlin and call it as:
A.foo() // This is call of extension function `foo` from Kotlin code
As I understand, right now it is impossible to do in Kotlin because it support "static" extension functions for KClass-es with companion object only. Right?
Seems like nothing to prevent to implement such functionality in Kotlin later. Right?
UPDATE 2019-06-12: This question doesn't answer to my question because my question about compatibility of Kotlin extension functions with Java classes.
You're right. In Kotlin 1.0, you can define extension functions on a companion object of a Kotlin class, and such functions can be called using the A.foo() syntax. Support for defining static extension functions on Java classes is a possible feature for future versions of Kotlin, but it's not on the roadmap of Kotlin 1.1 at this time.