Hi friends! Just out of curiosity, what are you using for I/O? We were looking for a library that co...

# multiplatform

[Paulo Cereda]

Hi friends! Just out of curiosity, what are you using for I/O? We were looking for a library that could help us have most of JVM Path / File capabilites... So far, we were looking into FileKit, fleeksoft-io and okio . Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks!

[joseph_ivie]

When in doubt, go official!
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io

[joseph_ivie]

As far as I remember, okio was basically merged into this one. You'll notice it looks very similar.

[Sebastian Schuberth]

It really depends on your needs. If you need cross-platform file open dialogs for a UI, go with FileKit.

[Paulo Cereda]

Thanks for the suggestions, friends! For us, it would be good to have something that mimics the basic Path operations (is file, is directory, is absolute, create directory, delete directory, write text, read text, read lines, normalize, resolve, etc), but I know this is tricky. 😅

[joseph_ivie]

AFAIK, you should be able to do all of those things with KotlinX IO, and if not, they should probably be added. Is there something insufficient in it?

[Paulo Cereda]

@joseph_ivie To be honest, it's been a while since we last check KotlinX IO, so my knowledge is really outdated. 😅 I will definitely check it out! Thanks Joseph!

[jw]

Okio was not merged into kotlinx-io. The latter has a byte movement API which is heavily inspired by Okio and arguably more powerful, but otherwise is anemic in the convenience features on top of that which it provides (or doesn't provide).

[jw]

kotlinx-io has its own FS API that is not the same as Okio's, and I would expect the design of its API to undergo significant change based on the open issues and discussion.

[joseph_ivie]

Ah, my bad.

[jw]

Both Okio and kotlinx-io should be able to do all of the "basic path operations" listed above, though.

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Another option: https://github.com/05nelsonm/kmp-file