Hello everyone, is it possible to use ktor client ...

# ktor

[Omar Habash]

Hello everyone, is it possible to use ktor client for gRPC/protobuf and KMM (iOS/Android)?

If someone could point me to a sample project/guide/docs that'd be great!

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

There is a feature request to have it in Ktor.

[Omar Habash]

Thank you so much!

So other than this, no luck huh?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Unfortunately, yes.

[Omar Habash]

What do you think about this? Last updated 2020 Feb 😕

https://github.com/marcoferrer/kroto-plus

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Seems like it doesn't support multiplatform.

[Omar Habash]

Rightly so, it only supports Kotlin/JVM as mentioned here

[Omar Habash]

One final question to finalize this thread, do you think it makes sense to implement gRPC from native side (Android/iOS) and have a common interface around it defined in the shared module?

• Sort of like this for WebSockets from Kotlinlang docs, but for gRPC instead of WebSockets.
• kotlinx.coroutines and the new memory model need to be used here most likely, correct?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

If you can write a solid interface which's abstraction won't leak much then it makes sense. You can use the new memory model for iOS but keep in mind that it's still experimental.

[David Nedrow]

@Omar Habash Upvote https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-1501

[edenman]

also https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-763/Out-of-the-box-ContentConverter-for-Protobuf