Hi folks! Is there a best alternative in Kotlin than using java nio Bytebuffer? ```val bos = ByteArr...

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[Andrea Giuliano]

Hi folks! Is there a best alternative in Kotlin than using java nio Bytebuffer?

val bos = ByteArrayOutputStream()
DataOutputStream(bos).use {
   it.writeInt(mydata)
}
ByteBuffer.wrap(bos.toByteArray())

I was googling around but haven’t found anything really.

[Vampire]

To do what?
Your end result currently is a ByteBuffer

[Andrea Giuliano]

yes I’d like to emulate an elastic byte buffer format to write data on the fly. Is the Kotlin standard approach to use ByteArray with + operator and forget about ByteArrayOutputStream, DataOutputStream and ByteBuffer?

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

Are you just looking for alternative IO libraries? Okio has a much more ergonomic API imo, interops with jvm io, and is even starting to get KMP support.