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Expose boxed inline value classes in JVM #393
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"Exposing" a `value` class is not a single concept. The following are some scenarios that we would like to support: | ||
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1. Creating boxed values: for example, creating an actual instance of `PositiveInt`. | ||
2. Calling operations that take or return value classes using their boxed representations. |
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Besides calling, there's also overriding, which the current proposal doesn't handle (or does it?), but perhaps it should be mentioned explicitly.
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annotation class JvmExposedBoxed(val jvmName: String = "") | ||
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The `@JvmExposeBoxed` annotation may be applied to a declaration, or a declaration container (classes, files). In the latter case, it should be taken as applied to every single declaration within it. |
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Is it allowed on open members? If yes, it kind of makes KT-31420 partially supported which is a bit suspicious. In particular, we should probably examine all problems keeping us from implementing KT-31420 and see how they affect @JvmExposeBoxed
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> There is a corner case in which `@JvmExposeBoxed` with a name is always needed: when the function has no argument which is a value class, but returns a value class. | ||
> In that case the compilation scheme performs no mangling. As a result, without the annotation the Java compiler would produce an ambiguity error while resolving the name. |
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This is not fully correct, mangling is still performed for class members.
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CONSTRUCTOR, PROPERTY, FUNCTION, // callables | ||
CLASS, FILE, // containers | ||
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annotation class JvmExposedBoxed(val jvmName: String = "", val expose: Boolean = true) |
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Typo - JvmExposedBoxed
instead of JvmExposeBoxed
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Only comment here about the text itself. The discussion about the feature is done in #394.
We propose modifications to how value classes are exposed in JVM, with the goal of easier consumption from Java. This includes exposing the constructor publicly and giving the ability to expose boxed variants of operations.