KaEngineService¶
interface KaEngineService
An engine service as defined by the Platform Interface (see the README).
Engine services do not need to be implemented by a platform. Quite the contrary, they are implemented by the Analysis API engine and intended to support platform implementations. They are defined in the Platform Interface, as opposed to the user-facing Analysis API, because they are intended for the consumption of platform implementations, but not Analysis API users.
As an example, a platform's lifetime token implementation (see KotlinLifetimeTokenFactory) can make use of the KaLifetimeTracker engine service to retrieve the currently active lifetime token for comparison.
As a marker interface, KaEngineService clearly separates an engine service from KotlinPlatformComponents which need to be implemented by a platform. Furthermore, engine services are always prefixed with Ka, in contrast to platform components which are prefixed with Kotlin.