in kotlin native, can we use NSURL for the network...
# multiplatformt
Tony
11/01/2019, 1:05 PMin kotlin native, can we use NSURL for the network stack? (trying to find ktor alternative)
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Tony
11/01/2019, 1:23 PMThanks Nikolay!
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Sam
11/01/2019, 3:59 PMOne gotcha to be aware of is that NSURLSession will call your call back on a background thread. It is up to you to switch over to the main thread (GCD or other mechanism).
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Tony
11/01/2019, 5:58 PMIs there a way to set the NSURLRequest.HTTPMethod to "GET"?
Tony
11/01/2019, 5:58 PMoh! that is very nice to know @Sam. thank you for that bit!
Tony
11/01/2019, 6:08 PMAh! There is a NSMutableURLRequest... 😢
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Sam
11/01/2019, 6:13 PMThat's a common pattern with the Cocoa frameworks.
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Tony
11/01/2019, 6:14 PMvery interesting. how did you figure that out?
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Sam
11/01/2019, 6:16 PMI came to Kotlin after doing over 5 years of iOS development. It's just one of those things you learn when learning Obj-C.
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Tony
11/01/2019, 6:21 PMahhhh! i'm glad you told me about that quirk about NSURLSessions
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Tony
11/01/2019, 6:40 PMIf my dispatcher for my coroutine is dispatch_get_main_queue(), do I need to bring it to the main thread when I use NSURLSession?
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