I try to use `kotlin-stdlib/kotlin.text/toByteArray` in my multiplatform project with no luck. What’...

# kotlin-native

[nestserau]

I try to use kotlin-stdlib/kotlin.text/toByteArray in my multiplatform project with no luck. What’s the idea behind converting strings to bytes and vice versa? Should I write platform-specific code at this point?

[nestserau]

Okay, I see that kotlin-stdlib/kotlin.native/toUtf8 is available on String. But I cannot invoke it. What am I doing wrong?

[Leonid Popescu]

there is String.toByteArray in kotlinx.io.core

[Leonid Popescu]

you would need to add the proper dependency

in common source set:
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-io:0.1.0-alpha-17-rc13"

[Leonid Popescu]

and the respective native counterparts

jvm:
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-io-jvm:0.1.0-alpha-17-rc13"

and in native:
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-io-native:0.1.0-alpha-17-rc13"

[nestserau]

Thank you Leonid. I try to not add any external dependencies. For now I just have written two platform specific versions. Works perfectly well.

[Leonid Popescu]

understandable, but since those are org.jetbrains.kotlinx I don’t see them as “external” 🙂