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rkeazor

05/08/2018, 12:28 PM
Is there any support for making network request with a multiplatform kotlin project
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Sam

05/08/2018, 1:24 PM
Not built in. You would have to use an expect/actual class to make your network call and then use each platform’s method for making the network call.
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agrosner

05/08/2018, 4:32 PM
What's nice is retrofit uses interfaces. So you in theory could use interface in common code that you only implement in iOS or js land
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josephivie

05/08/2018, 7:38 PM
I'm working on one, but it's not done yet. If you don't need it immediately, I should be done with it by this weekend.
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albertgao

05/09/2018, 5:49 AM
@agrosner Good idea. But 
retrofit
like 
room
, you need to use decorators, then it will pollute your model layer. So, any ideas for solving this? Extending the existing interface from 
common
and decorate it in android? 🙂 I have my cross platform get() and post(), but thinking of using 
retrofit
.
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agrosner

05/09/2018, 1:45 PM
that might be valid. keeps the annotations away from other platforms. you can 
expect
interface from common and actual it with decoration (i think thats possible)
what we need is a cross platform networking library, then retrofit's need is less when you use interface and implementation. rather than implementing each platform version differently
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napperley

05/10/2018, 9:06 PM
In order for that to happen the solution would need to be written in Kotlin end to end (all platforms).
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agrosner

05/10/2018, 9:07 PM
Yes and either support full reflection or kapt
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