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I want to use Retrofit's API but I want it to use kotlin `Flow`s. I've searched around a little but found nothing particularly elegant. Currently my API returns a `Call&lt;String&gt;` . I'd like it to return a `Flow&lt;String&gt;` with the least amount of boilerplate possible. How are you all doing it?

can your api return more than one value? That would be the reason to have it return a flow.

Otherwise make it a suspend function and just return the type

```@GET("/path")
suspend fun getSomething(): String```

Simpler than I thought:

```interface ApiInterface {
  @GET("")
  suspend fun getThing():String
}

val scope = rememberCoroutineScope()
scope.launch {
  val thing:String = service.getThing()
}      ```

Yeah I realised I didn't need a flow in the end.

Maybe if I update the source, I'd like to get new items down, but I think that falls in the purview of channels

For changes from the server you would need a web socket.