I want to use Retrofit's API but I want it to use kotlin `Flow`s. I've searched around a little but ...

# android

[adjpd]

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<String> . I'd like it to return a Flow<String> with the least amount of boilerplate possible. How are you all doing it?

[James Harman]

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

[adjpd]

Simpler than I thought:

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

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

[adjpd]

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

[adjpd]

Thanks

[adjpd]

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

[hfhbd]

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