Questions about the Javascript API

[RobNik]

Hi,

I thinking of using Kotlin on a couple web app projects. Having a type safe language in place of Javascript is very appealing, but I have a few questions…

1. Are the Javascript APIs documented somewhere?  The only thing I found is the “kotlin.browser” package listed here [1], but I can’t import that. I was able to import js.dom.html.document, and there appear to be some other packages available under “js”, but I can’t see what’s there.  

2. Is there an explanation somewhere of how I might use a class on both the client and server side? This comes up in data transfer. In my current web apps, I send an AJAX request, query a relational database, get back a type-safe object representing the result rows, and then send that over the wire as JSON, where I can then get runtime errors in Javascript for trivial type errors like mispelled property names. It’s really annoying, and if there is a way in Kotlin to pass those data objects to the browser and use them there with type safety, I’d start using Kotlin now.

3. If I need to write a “native” JS method to accomplish #2, I might do it, but again… I need documentation on how to do that. I don’t see any documentation on the Javascript stuff.

I can handle some early adopter pain, but I want to focus mostly on writing an application.

thanks,
Rob

[1] http://jetbrains.github.io/kotlin/versions/snapshot/apidocs/index.html

[bashor]

Hi, Robert.

Unfortunately right now we don’t have documentations for that, but You can see code here https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/js/js.libraries/src
And I collected some useful links, I hope this will help you:
http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/10/writing-kotlin-in-the-browser/

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[RobNik]

Thanks, that will get me started.