I'm new in Kotlin Flow. I'd like use with Retrofit...

# android

[Android75]

I'm new in Kotlin Flow. I'd like use with Retrofit but i don't understand if and when can i use Flow in Retrofit interface. I 'm using slack eithernet to get network response :

@GET("v2//news")
suspend fun news() : ApiResult<List<News>, ErrorResponse>

In this way i can't use Flow<ApiResult<List<News>, ErrorResponse>> so can i use in repo?

fun getNews(): Flow<List<News>> {
return flow {
}
}

[itnoles]

Which error message when you tried to get with Flow?

[Android75]

nothing, i 'd like understand when use Flow with Retrofit

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Flow is for streams, but retrofit just gives you a single response, so you define suspend functions instead. Suspend functions and flows interop in a number of ways, but there’s nothing specific to retrofit there.

[Android75]

Thanks

[Paul Woitaschek]

Only specific might be that you can't use Unit as a result when you don't have a response body

[Paul Woitaschek]

So you need to workaround with a Response<Void?> iirc