So I’m a little surprised to find this, but I’m not seeing any coroutine support in http4k. Is that ...

# http4k

[spierce7]

So I’m a little surprised to find this, but I’m not seeing any coroutine support in http4k. Is that the case?

[dave]

Coroutine support is currently only available in the http4k enterprise version

[Dmitry Kandalov]

Yes, please see this issue for details https://github.com/http4k/http4k/issues/94#issuecomment-774505850

[spierce7]

oh wow, support request for coroutines was actually closed. I’m going back to ktor 😛

[s4nchez]

@spierce7 if coroutines is what you need the most from an http toolkit, then http4k is indeed not the best tool for you.

[spierce7]

It’s not what I need most, and I definitely could work without it, but I’ve gotten so used to working with suspend functions and Structured Concurrency, and servers are a fantastic use case for Structured Concurrency, why settle?

[Razvan]

you can still do it, just use runBlocking { } in your handler... you will be using coroutines, just your request will not be asynchronous... but if it's not what you're looking for then no problem with that.

[Razvan]

We use them that way for a batch server to run background tasks.