Hi. What is a good way to answer http get query with stream of events. I mean, no content length, in...

# ktor

[Pavel Kunyavskiy [JB]]

Hi. What is a good way to answer http get query with stream of events. I mean, no content length, infinity long living query, which sometime print a line to output, if client is still there.

call.respondOutputStream with explicit flushes seams to be working, but doesn't look suspend friendly. Won't it block more threads than needed?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

You can try using the call.respondBytesWriter {} that uses a ByteWriteChannel under the hood.

[Pavel Kunyavskiy [JB]]

But it still looks like blocking API, as lambda itself wouldn't be suspend.

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

The lambda is suspendable. What do you mean that it wouldn’t be suspend?

[Pavel Kunyavskiy [JB]]

Hm. I need to recheck API. But anyway, writer.flush() is not suspend.