Have to work with Buffers for sending some stuff o...
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Colton Idle
08/07/2024, 1:29 AMHave to work with Buffers for sending some stuff over a tcp socket. Lower level stuff than what I'm used to in android app land, but I'm doing it in a multiplatform fashion. I have it working with java, but now want it to support kmp. Seems like I can either go for okio or https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io. Does anyone here have any strong reasons to go for one or the other?
Colton Idle
08/07/2024, 1:37 AMAccording to kotlin conf keynote... seems like jesses been helping a bunch on kotlinx.io? https://www.youtube.com/live/Ar73Axsz2YA?si=4P36VRqXpeax8MDZ&t=2552
so maybe okio is already planned to be succeeded by kotlinx.io?
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jw
08/07/2024, 2:02 AMIf it's a library use Okio
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jw
08/07/2024, 2:02 AMIf it's your own code where you can tolerate an unstable API, use kotlinx.io
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Michael Paus
08/07/2024, 8:45 AMI’d go with Okio. Kotlinx-io may be the future but at the moment it has a lot of missing features and strange behaviour which are really a paint when you realize them late in your development. I recently stumbled over this, for example. https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io/issues/223
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jw
08/07/2024, 11:25 AMBut they're not using files
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Colton Idle
08/07/2024, 2:24 PMThanks for the experience Michael! And yeah, my usecase is insanely specific right now. Just sending some bytes over a raw tcp socket (working on a thing that interacts with a smart home device)
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Thomas
08/08/2024, 7:12 PMKtor supports TCP sockets
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Colton Idle
08/09/2024, 7:59 AMyep. im using ktor. but im currently using java.nio.buffer to send things over ktor. but trying to make that kmp compatible
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Thomas
08/09/2024, 11:49 AMKtor 3.x uses kotlinx-io now so unless you want to convert between the two I think kotlinx-io would be more easier
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Colton Idle
08/09/2024, 2:15 PMinteresting. i am using ktor 3.x at the moment. But the way that Buffers work there are not like java.nio. Maybe I should revisit it again
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