Configuration

Like installation, configuration of Knee settings is done via the Gradle Plugin and Gradle properties. The plugin will install an extension named knee with the following options:

Verbosity

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knee {
    verboseLogs.set(true) // default: false
    verboseRuntime.set(true) // default: false
    verboseSources.set(true) // default: false
}

These three options should be used for debugging. They may also be controlled via a property in gradle.properties, using the syntax io.deepmedia.knee.<propName>=<true|false>.

• verboseLogs: if enabled, the Gradle plugin will print logs to the terminal.
• verboseRuntime: if enabled, the compiler plugin will inject println() calls at runtime for debugging.
• verboseSources: if enabled, the generated frontend source files will include comments and extra elements to understand which code generated them.

Source Sets

In multiplatform projects with both backend and frontend targets, you can ignore this and just use automatic target connection.

As described in the concepts page, Knee analyzes your native code and generates JVM sources. These sources must be consumed somehow (e.g. added to your source sets).

To retrieve and configure the directory, use:

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knee {
    generatedSourceDirectory.get() // default dir is build/knee/src
    generatedSourceDirectory.set(layout.buildDirectory.map { it.dir("somethingElse") })

    val targetSpecificDir = generatedSourceDirectory(myKotlinTarget)
}

Note that the generatedSourceDirectory is a root directory, with one subfolder per each KotlinNativeTarget where Knee is applied.

Target Connection

In Android Multiplatform projects, Knee will try to automatically bind backends with frontends:

• Determine all androidNative targets
• Declare debug and release binaries for them
• Pack the binaries in a dedicated folder (build/knee/bin) respecting Android's jniLibs convention
• Add such folder to Android Gradle Plugin and link tasks accordingly
• Add knee.generatedSourceDirectory to Android Gradle Plugin source sets and link tasks accordingly

This can be disabled by using knee.connectTargets.set(true).