private constructor shows up in API dump

[martinbonnin]

The following code:

class FooBar private constructor(val id: String) {
  class Builder {
    fun build() = FooBar("")
  }
}

dumps the following API:

public final class com/apollographql/apollo3/api/FooBar {
	public synthetic fun <init> (Ljava/lang/String;Lkotlin/jvm/internal/DefaultConstructorMarker;)V
	public final fun getId ()Ljava/lang/String;
}

public final class com/apollographql/apollo3/api/FooBar$Builder {
	public fun <init> ()V
	public final fun build ()Lcom/apollographql/apollo3/api/FooBar;
}

I'm curious as to why <init> is listed in the dump. If I were to remove the id parameter, would that be considered a breaking change even if it should be an implementation detail?

I'm using 0.8.0-RC

[qwwdfsad]

Note to self:

class ConstructorMarker constructor(unused: String = "")

and

class ConstructorMarker private constructor(unused: String, i: Int) {
    class Builder {
        fun build() = ConstructorMarker("", 42)
    }
}

both produce public synthetic <init>(Ljava/lang/String;ILkotlin/jvm/internal/DefaultConstructorMarker;)V, the trick is to properly distinguish them as former is part of the ABI, while latter is not

[qwwdfsad]

We decided this is a compiler issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-51073

Alas there is not much we can do on BCV side to address it

[dovchinnikov]

BCV could at least filter out synthetic constructors with DefaultConstructorMarker but without I

[shanshin]

As part of the migration of separate BCV functionality to Kotlin Gradle Plugin, the addition of new features to a separate plugin has been discontinued.

The issue was moved on YouTrack.