A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

kotlinlang

Hi friends, I have a use case where I need to bring Ktor (Netty) server up with a single endpoint to expose metrics, run a long task and then bring the server down when it's done. How can I programmatically shutdown the server and exit after the task is complete?

It does for serving up the metrics, but it stays up after the task is complete. I need to bring the server down.

oh, it looks like there's a `stop` function on the engine interface.

Without having looked at the implementation: there is a shutdown endpoint feature. You could either use that to explicitly shut down the server after usage or have a look at the code to see how the server is actually shut down there. 

<https://ktor.io/docs/shutdown-url.html|https://ktor.io/docs/shutdown-url.html>