question: how to import code from an external module

[AngryMaciek]

Im a rather newbie in Kotlin but I was wondering if there is a mechanism to import classes, functions I have in an external text file (not in the same directory)? Would be a very useful feature as defining hundreds of code lines in a notebook impairs brevity, better to put them out in a separate file and just "load" in the nb, right?

[ileasile]

Hi! It's only possible to import compiled modules and classes for now. In Kotlin Notebook intellij plugin you can access the source code of the project too

[AngryMaciek]

This issue is not really addressed, I don't understand why is this being closed.

1. Could you please provide me with an example or a documentation link to how to include a compiled module?
2. Does this kernel support %%bash magic cells to call compilation of an external module; that one which I would later like to load? If not - how do I achieve this?

[ileasile]

Sorry, I didn't notice your question...

1. Sure: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-jupyter#dependencies-resolving-annotations
2. We have proprocessors, one of our users solved very similar problem here: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-jupyter/issues/223#issuecomment-840521470

[KubaOfca]

Is there a way to install kotlin compiler in conda environment? I want to compile the script by run (inside conda env with kotlin-jupyter installed):

kotlinc -script custom.kts -include-runtime -d example.jar

but i got a message that

Command 'kotlinc' not found

[ileasile]

Why don't you want to simply use kotlin command-line compiler? https://kotlinlang.org/docs/command-line.html#install-the-compiler

kotlin-jupyter is a Kotlin kernel for jupyter, it doesn't separately install the compiler

[AngryMaciek]

Thanks for the link! I can download the compiler manually, indeed. I think that solves it :)