Kotlin Starter

A starter template for my kotlin projects using Gradle Kotlin DSL!

Download

• Binary

  

  After download, make sure to set the execute permission (chmod +x kotlin-starter).

  Windows users can run the executable jar - .

Build

• Source

   $ git clone https://github.com/sureshg/kotlin-starter
   $ cd kotlin-starter
   $ ./gradlew makeExecutable -q

  The binary would be located at build/libs/kotlin-starter

  Inorder to build a new version, change appVersion in the gradle.properties or pass it to ./gradlew -q -PappVersion=2.0.0

• API Doc

  The API docs would be generated under the docs, which can be published as GitHub Pages

   $ cd kotlin-starter
   $ ./gradlew dokka

• Github Release

  In order to publish the kotlin-starter binary to Github, generate Github Access token

   $ export GITHUB_TOKEN=<token>
   $ cd kotlin-starter
   $ ./gradlew prepareRelease
   $ ./gradlew githubRelease -q

  The latest release is

Usage

• Help

  $ kotlin-starter --help

Examples

• Generating AOT type-safe accessors in kotlin,

  $ ./gradlew kotlinDslAccessorsSnapshot

• Other Tasks

  # Run the main class.
  $ ./gradlew clean :run
  
  # Display project dependency
  $ ./gradlew dependencyInsight --dependency kotlin-stdlib  --configuration compile
  $ ./gradlew dependencies
  
  # See task tree for build task
  $ ./gradlew :build :taskTree

Kotlin Build Script Compilation

Script compilation happens in 4 steps:

• Extract buildscript block, compile it against parent project classpath (up to buildSrc), evaluate it against current project.
• Extract plugins block, compile it against the same classpath as the previous step, evaluate it against current project.
• MAGIC (generate Kotlin code based on information contributed by previous steps).
• Compile whole script against classpath contributed by previous steps.

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^**Require Java 8 or later