Hello everyone is it possible to use ktor client for gRPC pr kotlinlang #ktor

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]

02/21/2022, 12:42 PM

There is a feature request to have it in Ktor.

Omar Habash

02/21/2022, 12:42 PM

Thank you so much! So other than this, no luck huh?

Aleksei Tirman [JB]

02/21/2022, 12:43 PM

Unfortunately, yes.

Omar Habash

02/21/2022, 12:44 PM

What do you think about this? Last updated 2020 Feb 😕 https://github.com/marcoferrer/kroto-plus

Aleksei Tirman [JB]

02/21/2022, 12:47 PM

Seems like it doesn't support multiplatform.

Omar Habash

02/21/2022, 12:49 PM

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

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]

02/22/2022, 11:26 AM

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.

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David Nedrow

02/23/2022, 9:09 PM

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

edenman

08/17/2022, 4:35 AM

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

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