Is there an idiomatic way using ktor native socket...
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Andrew Gazelka
09/27/2020, 4:38 PMIs there an idiomatic way using ktor native sockets to send over/receive objects?
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Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:33 PMI’d recommend https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization, perhaps with protobuf support.
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Andrew Gazelka
09/28/2020, 3:47 AM@Sam Garfinkel If I send two protobufs over TCP in quick succession, when I read the byte array what I get is the concatenation of both requests. Is there a way to avoid this? (I am flushing)… I am guessing adding a byte specifying the legnth before sending each byte array?
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Sam Garfinkel
09/28/2020, 4:53 PMYeah you’ll need to create a meta-message for serializing your stuff. Protobuf doesn’t handle message delimitation for you.
Sam Garfinkel
09/28/2020, 4:54 PMThe easiest way is to prepend the length to each message.
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