Does anyone know if the workflow kt test library s...

# squarelibraries

[Deep Patel]

Does anyone know if the workflow kt test library supports pure kotlin or multiplatform? I have an app built in multiplatform using workflow kt but can’t test it since last I checked the test library was only supported for the jvm target

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

It’s still a Java library

[Deep Patel]

Will it ever be more? Ei multiplatform?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

I’m not sure why it wasn’t converted with the rest, I’m not sure there’s any technical reason it couldn’t be. I suspect it was an oversight. Maybe @Stephen Edwards knows?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

If you want to try to convert it and put up a PR, we’ll review.

[Deep Patel]

I tried to do it, some Java lib things got in the way

[Deep Patel]

Ill take a look but I’ll definitely need some help

[Deep Patel]

I haven’t tried in several months

[blakelee]

I was trying to convert it to KMP but I got held up with the parts that use reflection and scrapped it. I think parts of the testing area would need to be thought out differently for the platforms IIRC

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

ah yea, that rings a bell

[Deep Patel]

Wait so @Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] can we use Workflow with compose in a KMP project now?

[blakelee]

I didn’t know that. I had to fork it and move some stuff into a commonMain

[Deep Patel]

Ya same - but I'm seeing some interesting things here
https://github.com/square/workflow-kotlin/blob/main/design-docs/compose-based-workflows-design.md

[blakelee]

It looks like it’s adding Compose to workflow-core which is KMP.

[blakelee]

I had to fork all the stuff with ComposeScreen

[Deep Patel]

Oh hell ya

[blakelee]

Yeah workflow-ui/compose and workflow-ui/core-common are still Android only which I think would cause issues

[Deep Patel]

ComposeWorkflow is a new thing now - hadn't see that before

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

ComposeWorkflow is for writing workflows using compose, doesn't have anything to do with the view layer

[blakelee]

ah ok. ComposeWorkflow is using compose not compose-ui so we get access to all the compose optimizations and utilities from MutableState, and launched/disposable/side effects rather than using the previous render function for determining state. Is that right? ComposeScreen is separate and works with compose-ui to render views.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

more or less, yea