I'm playing with KotlinNative for a Demo, is someo...

# http4k

[Uberto Barbini]

I'm playing with KotlinNative for a Demo, is someone ever tried a port of Http4k to KN?

[Uberto Barbini]

I think they added a multiplatform DateTime... I have to check.

[Uberto Barbini]

InputStreams doesn't seem jvm related but of course it depends on what you are using as webserver.
I noticed a KN one called KwangIO

[s4nchez]

IIRC at the time there was no multiplatform InputStream, and I didn't feel like it was something we should implement 😉

[Uberto Barbini]

mmmh no DateTime either but there are 3rd party implementations

[s4nchez]

yeah. That was our trade-off: keep the dependencies low until the Kotlin multiplatform ecosystem matures a bit.

[Uberto Barbini]

yeah makes sense. I suppose a one-off port is possible but not keeping a single codebase,

[Uberto Barbini]

I will stick with KwangIO for the moment then 🙂

[Uberto Barbini]

I can probably add a HttpHandler kind of interface to it... 🤭

[s4nchez]

The actual core of http4k is pretty small. If you could fit it to KwangIO's I/O model perhaps it's a good start.

[Uberto Barbini]

After looking at the code of KwangIO I decided it would be better to try to implement a http4k backend directly on top of something like mongoose...

[dave]

@Uberto Barbini if you're keen, I'd love to have the repo for that native port somewhere in the http4k org on GitHub, even as an experiment. 🙃

[Uberto Barbini]

The problem is that there is no easy way to have a Web server in kotlin native.
So for my talk i wrote one from scratch :)
Of course ultra limited but it works for small things and it's fast and its 300kb in all :)

[Uberto Barbini]

Maybe next talk i can connect with http4k :))

[dave]

Would love to see it - is it online anywhere?

[Uberto Barbini]

https://github.com/uberto/picoServer

[Uberto Barbini]

atm it's not even parsing the headers and the request cannot be bigger than 1k, but for super stupid REST it actually works and it has a Http4k-like handler 🙂