library-api-watchdog is a set of compiler checks for library authors. It finds public API declarations that are hard to evolve: shapes that can't change later without a breaking change for the library's users.

The documentation has a page for every check: the rationale, examples, exemptions, and configuration. The API reference covers the exemption annotations.

Setup

The plugin and the annotations library are in the Space EAP repository. The Gradle plugin also depends on the runtime libraries of the compiler plugin dev kit. They are in the dev kit EAP repository.…