What is the best way for working with files in kot...
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Hamza
10/14/2018, 4:52 AMWhat is the best way for working with files in kotlin? Do I still need to use FileInputStream and other classes from Java?
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karelpeeters
10/14/2018, 6:19 AMYes.
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Pavlo Liapota
10/14/2018, 8:28 AMYes, but you can use standard extension functions that make this easier.
https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.io/index.html#extensions-for-external-classes
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Paul Woitaschek
10/14/2018, 10:28 AMI also wrap functions that work on files in a suspend fun
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Nikky
10/14/2018, 2:28 PMfor simple things like readText, writeText, useLines, mkdirs, etc (which is really all i needed to use so far) you do not need to fall back to java
i hope those will soon be available in a multiplatform library
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Hamza
10/14/2018, 10:50 PMThanx guys
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rocketraman
10/18/2018, 5:18 PMI also wrap functions that work on files in a suspend funTheoretically these should run in an IO dispatcher...
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