Netflix / Netflix/dgs-codegen

Kotlin code generation fails when type name start with non-capital letter

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Description

If for some reason the graphQL type name provided by the server side starts with a non-capital letter (lower-case letter or a special symbol like underscore), the DGS plugin fails to generate code in Kotlin language, though it works fine with Java.

The error as follows:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    Execution failed for task ':my:task:generateJava'.
    couldn't make a guess for com.my.package.typeStartingWithNonCapitalLetter

Expected behavior: Kotlin code is generated successfully in case of types that start with non-capital letter.

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