Android Room Persistence library and Kotlin

Anyone interested in using Kotlin with Room and Data Binding can see this sample project https://github.com/entrpn/kotlin-room-databinding

Usually in project build.gradle I define the dependencies versions:

ext {
    buildToolsVersion = '25.0.2'
    supportLibVersion = '25.3.1'
    espressoVersion = '2.2.2'
    archRoomVersion = '1.0.0-alpha1'
}

so in app build.gradle the dependencies look like:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jre7:$kotlin_version"

    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${rootProject.supportLibVersion}"

    compile "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:${rootProject.archRoomVersion}"
    annotationProcessor "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:${rootProject.archRoomVersion}"
    kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:${rootProject.archRoomVersion}"

    androidTestCompile("com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:${rootProject.espressoVersion}", {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

Now you can define Entities Daos and Database in Kotlin.

Database:

@Database(entities = arrayOf(User::class), version = 1)
abstract class Database : RoomDatabase() {
    abstract fun userDao(): UserDao
}

Entity:

@Entity(tableName = "user")
class User {
    @PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
    var id: Int = 0
    var name: String = ""
}

Dao:

@Dao
interface UserDao {
    @Query("SELECT * FROM user")
    fun getAll(): List<User>

    @Insert
    fun insertAll(vararg users: User)

    @Delete
    fun delete(user: User)
}

NB: Query with parameters. Kotlin renames params, so the SQL query to retrieve all the emails that belong at an user via the userId is:

@Query("SELECT * FROM email "
            + "INNER JOIN user ON user.id = email.userId "
            + "WHERE user.id = :arg0")
    fun getEmailsForUser(userId: Int): List<Email>

In my case, in build.gradle, when you have "annotationProcessor" you need to duplicate with "kapt" and it works.

compile "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:$room_version"
annotationProcessor "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"
kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"

Try out these steps

Step 1. Set the room_version in the project.gradle file

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.51'
    ext.room_version = '1.0.0-alpha9-1'
...

Step 2. Apply the kotlin-kapt plugin in the app.gradle file, and this solved my issue.

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 26
    buildToolsVersion "26.0.1"
...

Step 3. Add the kapt dependency in the app.gradle file

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:$room_version"
    annotationProcessor "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"
    kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"
...
}