Support Mixins(?)

Hey @juanchosaravia, I’d like to apply @AutoDsl on classes contained within a separate Gradle/Maven module or dependency, i.e. not in the current source.

Is something this in the roadmap? Should i try patching up a PR?

For the latter please note i’ll probably have to:

• Add an @AutoDslMixin annotation
• Add a dependency to my kotlin-utils’ kapt module

The implementation would allow something like:

@AutoDslMixin(
      dslName = "whatever", // Default: "person"
      dslSource = Person::class)
class PersonMixin

[manosbatsis]

Had a couple of issues with that approach:

• Creating a class that has the target external classes as members to generate their DSL produces a wrapper layer that is hard to get rid of.
• Creating a super class of the target to apply @AutoDsl there only works if the target class is open, while it doesn’t produce the target type anyway. Also a bit problematic in case of data classes.
• In either case of the above there is no way for fine grained config, e.g. DSL name or collection tweaks like AutoDslCollection)

[juanchosaravia]

I’m concern of the need to create new classes to generate builders for other classes. Seems to be a lot of code just to provide support to external class that should not really be exposed in a DSL. You could easily create a class to encapsulate the internal classes that you use or any class from any library. In that case you will not need to expose that class with your DSL and then no need to apply AutoDsl to that internal class.