Yeah, feel free to create one, we should have a place to collect
comments/feedback.

cheers,
Andy

On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 14:32, Matthew Adams <matt...@matthewadams.me> wrote:

> Understood, Andy.  Should I create an issue so that we can track this?
>
> On May 14, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Andy Clement <andrew.clem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I would probably need to see a lot of demand before exploring an ajc like
> experience for Kotlin. It would be a very large amount of effort and binary
> weaving of the class files can get you a long way. If I had cycles to work
> on the compile time experience I'd probably prefer to put that into
> improving the annotation based model, but I know that isn't great for folks
> relying on inter type declarations and static checking at compile time.
>
> cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 06:46, Matthew Adams <matt...@matthewadams.me>
> wrote:
>
>> No, Martin, I’m not experiencing these problems, and my mentioning Spring
>> was tangential.
>>
>> I’m basically asking that ajc support Kotlin source files.
>>
>> On May 13, 2019, at 5:43 PM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> from what i see its not a matter of spring like or dislike..its a matter
>> of keeping JDK class file consist
>>
>> aj => .java => .class
>>
>> kt => .java => .class
>>
>> but this same scenario goes fubar when you switch JDKs ..this is an
>> example
>>
>> aj => 1_dot_eight.java => 1_dot_eight.class
>>
>> kt  => 1_dot_nine.java => 1_dot_none.class
>>
>> because spring is native compiled to 1.8 class format ..all .aj and all
>> .kt dsl files will compile to 1.8 class
>> access to class files in jar is no problem
>> doing reflection e.g. Class.forName(One_dot_eight); also no problem
>>
>> things fall apart quickly with aj, kt or .java files when you mix 1.8
>> class files with 1.9 class files
>>
>> (1.9 lambda functions fubar on accessing 1.8 class files)
>>
>> maven folk say full compile the whole lot to your runtime JDK will
>> supposedly cure this scenario
>>
>> is this what you're experiencing?
>>
>> martin-
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36780990/convert-inter-type-declaraton-from-aj-to-java-with-aspect-annotations
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34957430/how-to-convert-a-kotlin-source-file-to-a-java-source-file
>>
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34957430/how-to-convert-a-kotlin-source-file-to-a-java-source-file>
>> How to convert a kotlin source file to a java source file - Stack
>> Overflow - Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn, Share, & Build Careers
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34957430/how-to-convert-a-kotlin-source-file-to-a-java-source-file>
>> To convert a Kotlin source file to a Java source file you need to (when
>> you in Android Studio):. Press Cmd-Shift-A on a Mac, or press Ctrl-Shift-A
>> on a Windows machine.. Type the action you're looking for: Kotlin Bytecode
>> and choose Show Kotlin Bytecode from menu. Press Decompile button on the
>> top of Kotlin Bytecode panel.; Now you get a Decompiled Java file along
>> with Kotlin file in a ...
>> stackoverflow.com
>>
>>
>>
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36780990/convert-inter-type-declaraton-from-aj-to-java-with-aspect-annotations>
>> aop - Convert Inter-Type declaraton from .aj to .java with Aspect
>> annotations - Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn,
>> Share, & Build Careers
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36780990/convert-inter-type-declaraton-from-aj-to-java-with-aspect-annotations>
>> What you want is not possible with @AspectJ style, you need to use the
>> more powerful native syntax. (Why do you want to switch anyway?) The reason
>> behind this is that the Java compiler can only convert @DeclareParents to a
>> form in which Village is a subclass of whatever interface implementation
>> you define in your aspect, for example something like this:
>> stackoverflow.com
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* aspectj-users-boun...@eclipse.org <
>> aspectj-users-boun...@eclipse.org> on behalf of Matthew Adams <
>> matt...@matthewadams.me>
>> *Sent:* Monday, May 13, 2019 5:53 PM
>> *To:* aspectj-users@eclipse.org
>> *Subject:* [aspectj-users] Formal support for Kotlin?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’ve been doing some googling around to see what I can find with regard
>> to using AspectJ with Kotlin.  Things don’t look particularly great at
>> first glance:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44364633/aspectj-doesnt-work-with-kotlin
>>
>> There are of course many more hits, but it appears the current state of
>> the art is to compile with kotlin, then apply AspectJ to the kotlin .class
>> files.
>>
>> Problem is, we have some libraries that we can only compile via ajc due
>> to their design, so I’m wondering what thought has been given to adding
>> kotlin language support to ajc.  I didn’t see any issues requesting Kotlin
>> language support in ajc so far.  Kotlin looks promising, and it appears
>> that Spring also is liking Kotlin enough to add support for it.  I’d love
>> to have my Kotlin & AspectJ, too.
>>
>> Any comments, folks?
>>
>> -matthew
>>
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