<@UL1A5BA2X> <@UCEU5NT0Q> Do you use any non-block...

# kvision

[Robert Jaros]

@Big Chungus @Diogo Ribeiro Do you use any non-blocking database access libraries (kotlin or java) with Ktor (with KVision or even without it)

[Big Chungus]

Nope 😕 I'm mainly playing around with MPP architecture rather than connecting backends to external services these days.

[Diogo Ribeiro]

When do you say, "non-blocking database access libraries", it means that the framework should handler the access in another Thread?
Like a suspension function?

[Robert Jaros]

I mean some non-blocking library like spring-r2dbc or jasync-sql

[Robert Jaros]

ktor is fully non-blocking so there should be something to work in a non-blocking way with database for ktor

[Robert Jaros]

but Exposed from JB is not as far as I know

[Big Chungus]

Well you can always wrap exposed into koroutines

[Big Chungus]

To make them non blocking

[Robert Jaros]

you can, but it wont make them non-blocking, it will still use thread for every statement under the hood

[Robert Jaros]

it just let's you use it with non-blocking ktor without killing the server 🙂

[Robert Jaros]

I'm just asking because I've spend last three days integrating kvision + spring boot webflux + spring r2dbc and it really starts to work very nice in a fully non-blocking way with kotlin coroutines

[Big Chungus]

Correct, but if you use dedicated thread pool for it blocking code will be fully isolated

[Robert Jaros]

I would really like to have similar stack for ktor 🙂

[Big Chungus]

Would definitely be nice. Take a break from kvision and implement your own 😄

[Robert Jaros]

no more spare time unfortunately 😉