Is there particular pattern recommended for calling Kotlin method from Swift where that method in tu...

# multiplatform

[John O'Reilly]

Is there particular pattern recommended for calling Kotlin method from Swift where that method in turns collects values from some flow source (e.g. db)

[John O'Reilly]

right now I'm doing following (if you ignore fact that I probably shouldn't be using GlobalScope like this 🙂 )

fun fetchPeople(success: (List<Assignment>) -> Unit) {
        GlobalScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
            fetchPeopleAsFlow()?.collect {
                success(it)
            }
        }
    }

[John O'Reilly]

@Svyatoslav Scherbina now that we have capability to call suspend functions directly from Swift, is there anything similar planned for flow?

[ankushg]

The KotlinConf app has a helper class CFlow that returns a Closeable so iOS can properly dispose of the job when it needs to... but otherwise it’s basically the same as this

[John O'Reilly]

k, thanks @ankushg, will take a look

[ankushg]

This is my (very un-tested) spin on it: https://github.com/ankushg/CocktailApp/blob/main/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/ankushg/cocktailapp/shared/utils/FlowUtils.kt