Kotlin language port - multiplatform

[apatrida]

This is a port of the Java code to Kotlin written as a common library so that additional platforms could be supported from the same codebase. It should compile to a common module, and a JVM module. In fact, it runs both common tests and the equivalent original Java tests to ensure that this could also be used from Java as a drop-in replacement API (minus one constructor change that was moved to a factory method, the rest should be API compatible).

Missing is Gradle publishing and making sure all maven artifacts are generated as expected (source, doc, bin jar). Could also add JavaScript tests, and native builds but that requires specific build machines which is more complicated than needed.

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[apatrida]

@zongweil Yes, I can leave the Gradle scripts and remove the binaries, it will re-download when someone does a build. I just missed it on the ignore list.

[apatrida]

@zongweil for #2, how to build/call also should consider where we can publish the maven artifacts and get that added to the Gradle build so that the library can just be used as a normal dependency. I can only test that so far since I won't have rights to publish to the maven repo under this group ID.

[apatrida]

Gradle files are removed, now I'm looking at how this should be published to a repo and used.

[apatrida]

I setup publishing to local Maven repo, and this could be extended to public repos if we have specific configuration that can be setup for making this a public artifact. We could also build JavaScript version for Kotlin, and native libraries for Mac, Linux, Windows, and other platforms. But those would require build machines that are capable of building each target.

More about this here:

• https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/building-mpp-with-gradle.html
• https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_maven.html#publishing_maven:repositories