I’m sure this should be obvious, but given an exis...

# coroutines

[Sam Garfinkel]

I’m sure this should be obvious, but given an existing synchronous API that expects a blocking InputStream or Reader, what’s the correct way to wrap that such that I can call it as a suspendable function and map some sort of asynchronous communication such as a Channel into the given InputStream?

[Sam Garfinkel]

Should I wrap the blocking io in with(<http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO>) { … } then how to I map the asynchronous channel into a synchronous data structure?

[kevin.cianfarini]

For the time being, you should offload blocking IO to Dispatchers IO like above

[kevin.cianfarini]

however, you should watch this repo closely.

[kevin.cianfarini]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io

[kevin.cianfarini]

At some point in the future, it will support non blocking IO

[Sam Garfinkel]

Cool, thanks!