* [Kotlin] Introduction to Kotlin Multiplaform
The first implementation of the Kotlin code generation was made years
ago at the time Kotlin Multiplaform was not stable and Kotlin is mostly
used on JVM-based targets. For this reason the generated code uses java
based runtime.
That design decision comes with many drawbacks, leaving the code
generated more java-like and making it impossible to use more advanced
features of the Kotlin language.
In this change we are adding two parts: A pure, multi-plaform, Kotlin
runtime and a new code generator to accompany it.
* [Kotlin] Remove scalar sign cast from code generation
Now that we have a new runtime the accepts unsigned types, we don't
need to code generate casting back and from signed scalars. This
MR removes this from both code generations and adds the necessary
API to the runtime.
* [Kotlin] Use offset on public API to represent buffer position
Currently, kotlin was following Java's approach of representing objects,
vectors, tables as "Int" (the position of it in the buffer). This change
replaces naked Int with Offset<T>, offering a type-safe API. So,
instead of
fun Table.createTable(b: FlatBufferBuilder, subTable: Int)
We will have
fun Table.createTable(b: FlatBufferBuilder, subTable: Offset<SubTable>)
Making impossible to accidentally switch parameters.
The performance should be similar to use Int as we are using value
class for Offset and ArrayOffset, which most of the time translate to
Int in the bytecode.
* [Kotlin] Add builder for tables
Add builder constructor to make create of table more ergonomic.
For example the movie sample for the test set could be written as:
Movie.createMovie(fbb,
mainCharacterType = Character_.MuLan,
mainCharacter = att) {
charactersType = charsType
this.characters = characters
}
instead of:
Movie.startMovie(fbb)
Movie.addMainCharacterType(fbb, Character_.MuLan)
Movie.addMainCharacter(fbb, att as Offset<Any>)
Movie.addCharactersType(fbb, charsType)
Movie.addCharacters(fbb, charsVec)
Movie.endMovie(fbb)
* [Kotlin] Move enum types to value class
Moving to flatbuffer enums to value class adds type safety for parameters
with minimum to no performance impact.
* [Kotlin] Simplify Union parameters to avoid naked casting
Just a small change on the APIs that receive union as parameters,
creating a typealias UnionOffset to avoid using Offset<Any>. To "convert"
an table offset to an union, one just call Offset.toUnion().
* [Kotlin] Apply clang-format on kotlin code generators
* [Kotlin] Update kotlin generator to follow official naming conventions
Updating directory, package and enum naming to follow Kotlin official
convention.
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coding-conventions.html#naming-rules
* [Kotlin] Add fixes to improve performance
1 - Add benchmark comparing serialization between Java & Kotlin
2 - ReadWriteBuffer does not auto-grow (thus avoid check size in every op)
3 - Add specialized add functions on FlatBufferBuilder to avoid boxing
offsets.
4 - Remove a few Kotlin syntax sugar that generated performance penalties.
* [Kotlin] Remove builder from Kotlin KMP and add some optimizations
to avoid boxing of Offset classes
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Co-authored-by: Derek Bailey <derekbailey@google.com>
* Bfbs Nim Generator
* Remove commented out tests
* add missing line to idl.h
* Commit python reflection changes
* Commit python reflection changes and move tests
* Remove default string addition
* Move tests to python file
* Fix element size check when element is table
* remove whitespace changes
* add element_type docs and commit further to namer and remove kkeep
* Bfbs Nim Generator
* Remove commented out tests
* add missing line to idl.h
* Commit python reflection changes
* Commit python reflection changes and move tests
* Remove default string addition
* Move tests to python file
* Fix element size check when element is table
* remove whitespace changes
* add element_type docs and commit further to namer and remove kkeep
* remove unused variables
* added tests to ci
* added tests to ci
* fixes
* Added reflection type Field, Variable to namer
* Moved reflection namer impl to bfbsnamer
* Remove whitespace at end of line
* Added nim to generated code
* Revert whitespace removal
Co-authored-by: Derek Bailey <derekbailey@google.com>
* initial hack to get new Lua generator into flatc
* Starting to output enum defs for Lua
* Continue to work on table generation for Lua
* Finished basic getter access for Lua
* Added ability to get object by index
* Finished struct builder
* aliased reflection to r
* finish table builder generation
* register requiring files
* better generated header info
* Tying up loose ends
* Updated reflection to handle struct padding
* Addd type sizes to reflection
* Fixed some vector indirect issues
* Lua tests passed
* Misc cleanup
* ci fixes 1
* ci fixes 2
* renaming
* up size of type sizes
* manually ran clang-format-11 -i src/idl_parser.cpp
* fixed some windows casting
* remove stupid auto import
* more static_casting
* remove std
* update other build environments
* remove scoped enums
* replaced std::to_string with NumToString
* more win fixes
* more win fixes
* replaced old lua with new
* removed auto import
* review responses
* more style fixes
* refactor bfbs_gen_len to use code +=
* added consts
* fix lambda capture for windows
* remove unused return type
