Support for Java interop

[Petroniuss]

Support for Java interop

[aajtodd]

Hey thanks for the feedback.

It would help to understand your use case a bit better. Are you asking for support from the AWS SDK for Kotlin for this or are you using (or planning to) generate code using smithy-kotlin for your own models?

Smithy will eventually support Java as a first class code generator. The recommendation right now for people in Kotlin that need to bridge the two would be to wrap or write extension functions around the coroutines code the same way you would for any other coroutine code to make it callable from Java.

I think we could certainly explore this as a plugin setting for people that want to generate the extra code but we don't currently have plans to implement this. Gathering use cases and how people would want this to look and why they want it would be a good first step.

[Petroniuss]

Hi there,
I was experimenting with Smithy as a tool for codegen similar to thrift or grpc but targeting existing HTTP services communicating over JSON. The main advantage that smithy has is I'd say ease of customizability - for example to extend codegen for Kotlin to adjust it for my use-case I could simply implement KotlinIntegration interface and that would be it.

In my specific case, I'd like to generate clients with some customizations (for example: attaching headers for tracing) but I'd like those clients to be usable from both Kotlin and Java.
Kotlin clients look great (thanks for your work!) but I wouldn't want to write bridge code by hand in a java application to consume a kotlin client - hence my request to generate that code.

I'd be okay with generating different clients for Java and for Kotlin but as you mentioned smithy project doesn't yet support Java.