i have a question regarding KTOR, is there any way...

# ktor

[Jamal Khan]

i have a question regarding KTOR, is there any way to plugin in an engine that implements a non-HTTP protocol? KTOR looks really nice and i'd like it to be able to support a request/response framework that is proprietary.

[Dominaezzz]

Hmm, is this for what I think it's for? 😄

[Jamal Khan]

most likely yes 🙂

[hfhbd]

Sure, "just" create you own engine and put the instance in the embeddedServer(yourEngine). Alternative you could use the classpath resolving to use HOCON files.

[hfhbd]

https://ktor.io/docs/custom-engines.html

[Jamal Khan]

yeah i was raeding through https://ktor.io/docs/custom-engines.html#applicationengine-api
but it isn't apparent whether, engines are protocol agnostic?

[Dominaezzz]

I feel like a lot of Ktor is centred around http, once you do any custom protocol like some proprietary application service framework, you lose a lot of the Ktor features.

[Jamal Khan]

yeah that's what i'm trying to figure out, whether or not pipelines are protocol agnostic, if they are that'd be nice

[Dominaezzz]

Ahh it's that bit you care about. Yeah that's agnostic afaik.

[Dominaezzz]

In addition to HTTP ktor has websockets so non-http is doable for sure.

[hfhbd]

According to the docs:
Some engines can support other connector types, hence not an enum.

[hfhbd]

So you should be able to implement it

[Morgan Pittkin]

And you can work with just raw sockets as well:
https://ktor.io/docs/servers-raw-sockets.html#server