Hey everyone I m looking for some help with setting up my kt

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Hey everyone I m looking for some help with setting up my ktor client I am storing the url in a proto datastore and I m not sure how to get it out of there and into the `defaultRequest` block has anyone else did this How did you go about it

Aleksei Tirman [JB] · Answer

Probably the following solution is kind of bad but you can read an URL <https developer android com topic libraries architecture datastore synchronous|synchronously> and then use it in the `defaultRequest` block

Chad Gregory · Answer

I had tried that yesterday but it was hanging without end I thought after a while that it was due to the flow that my repository returns was causing the hang because a flow never ends I tried using `single ` over `collect ` but that didn t work either What I ended up doing was in my runBlocking I just added a small delay `delay 250L ` and that was enough time for the url to be received from my datastore I still want a better solution than that my guess is I need to modify my return of flow to something else instead that actually finish which then the solution you gave would work

Chad Gregory · Answer

maybe a even better way is to not use a default url at all and just get the url when for each request

Aleksei Tirman [JB] · Answer

Do you need to get the host only once or it can be updated during an application lifecycle

Chad Gregory · Answer

Theoretically it can be updated during the app lifecycle but right now I am just requiring a restart of the app when the app settings are changed I know that is not great either but for the time being it going to do I have a timeline on the project I m working on so these extra things I can deal with later

Chad Gregory · Answer

so I fully fixed my issue I created a method with the same name as my val personal decision which utilizes `runBlocking ` and `Flow lt T gt first ` to block while the value is retrieve The reason I did not replace my val with the function is there are places where I need the information as well where I can utilize coroutines properly where I am not initializing components on my app ```val getTerminalDetails Flow lt TerminalDetails gt = cxt terminalDetails data catch e gt if e is IOException Log d Error e message toString emit TerminalDetails getDefaultInstance else throw e fun getTerminalDetails TerminalDetails = runBlocking cxt terminalDetails data first ```