hi all :wave: currently using Kotlin/Ktor `1.4.0` to make a very simple API call on a multiplatform...

# multiplatform

[Ivann Ruiz]

hi all 👋 currently using Kotlin/Ktor 1.4.0 to make a very simple API call on a multiplatform mobile project, however I get Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS(code=1, ...) error when I run the IOS code. Anybody run into this issue? It throws the error on this line in the mainIos source set:
actual val engine by lazy { Ios.create() }

would appreciate any insight 🙂

[saket]

I think lazy will freeze implicitly, resulting in that crash because ktor doesn't support it yet

[saket]

Have you tried using atomicLazy?

[Ivann Ruiz]

Haven't tried atomicLazy but I had the same code with the lazy{...} on a project with Kotlin 1.3.72 and everything ran fine. Only getting this issue recently though 🤔

[louiscad]

@Ivann Ruiz Which kotlinx.coroutines version do you see when you do ./gradlew :yourModule:dependencies?

[Ivann Ruiz]

I have coroutines version set to 1.3.9 . What fixed my freezing problem was to downgrade Ktor from 1.4.0 to 1.3.2-1.4.0-rc

[Ivann Ruiz]

Got the idea from here https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/1550

[Mike]

Hmm all I can say is be careful using ktor on iOS. Last time I ran into so many deadlock issues to even count, that I gave up after 2 weeks of debugging and trying to work around different issues. For example:

<https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/821>
<https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/679>
<https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/770>

[Mike]

nowadays I abstract the client to native ios/android implementations that make the network call using their own platform libraries