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authorGuillaume Martres <smarter@ubuntu.com>2016-02-24 23:53:35 +0100
committerGuillaume Martres <smarter@ubuntu.com>2016-02-28 20:08:59 +0100
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Add a `dotty-interfaces` package
We introduce a new entry point for the compiler in `dotty.tools.dotc.Driver`: ``` def process(args: Array[String], simple: interfaces.SimpleReporter, callback: interfaces.CompilerCallback): interfaces.ReporterResult ``` Except for `args` which is just an array, the argument types and return type of this method are Java interfaces defined in a new package called `dotty-interfaces` which has a stable ABI. This means that you can programmatically run a compiler with a custom reporter and callbacks without having to recompile it against every version of dotty: you only need to have `dotty-interfaces` present at compile-time and call the `process` method using Java reflection. See `test/test/InterfaceEntryPointTest.scala` for a concrete example. This design is based on discussions with the IntelliJ IDEA Scala plugin team. Thanks to Nikolay Tropin for the discussions and his PR proposal (see #1011).
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diff --git a/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/Contexts.scala b/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/Contexts.scala
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package dotty.tools
package dotc
package core
+import interfaces.CompilerCallback
import Decorators._
import Periods._
import Names._