Hi, I have the following suspended function, which...

# coroutines

[akshay_b]

Hi, I have the following suspended function, which I want to expose as Java APIs(blocking) and Kotlin API(non-blocking) with same method name.

suspend fun getStoreMapping(country: String): List<Store> {
    return client.getStoreMapping(country).stores
}

Currently, the only option I have is to use different method name, which calls the suspended function in runBlocking {} like below -

fun getStoreMappingInJava(country: String): List<Store> {
    return runBlocking { client.getStoreMapping(country).stores }
}

[octylFractal]

you might be able to add @JvmName to the second one and have that work

[octylFractal]

that way, the kotlin names are different, but since the jvm signature is different, the compiler will let you name it the same thing

[octylFractal]

https://pl.kotl.in/q2J8Y2uBe appears to compile

[octylFractal]

public final class TestKt {
  public static final java.lang.Object suspender(kotlin.coroutines.Continuation<? super kotlin.Unit>);
  public static final void suspender();
}

looks good to me

[gildor]

I prefer to call such functions with Blocking suffix to make it explicit that function will block caller thread

[Adam Powell]

It would probably be more useful to expose a future, or callbacks, or Rx Single/Maybe for java callers so that they don't have to block a thread

[akshay_b]

Thanks all for the input 🙂 .