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Sven
Sven

Reputation: 89

Is there a way to annotate the INSTANCE field of kotlin objects?

I have a Kotlin object that has several fields exposed as static @JvmFields. The parser that I use (which I cannot edit or change) looks for public static fields and creates a configuration file based on those. Since the INSTANCE field is public too, the parser generates a new category called instance. Is there a way to add actual annotations to the INSTANCE field? I would want to add the @Ingore annotation to it so the parser does not use the INSTANCE field.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 329

Answers (1)

hotkey
hotkey

Reputation: 148169

Basically, the answer is no, Kotlin does not allow annotating or altering the INSTANCE fields in any other way. If you believe this could be a useful feature, please file a feature request at kotl.in/issue.

The valid solutions to this problem are:

  • Make the bytecode analyzing tool Kotlin-aware, i.e. make it behave correctly with Kotlin declarations. Though this requires non-trivial job to be done and does not seem possible in your case, it could be a valuable time investment.

  • Create another ad-hoc tool that post-processes the classes produced by the Kotlin compiler and adds the annotations you need, then include that tool into your build.

Upvotes: 1

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