Hello all, did anyone use Protobuf for KMM project...

# multiplatform

[Mario Loncar]

Hello all, did anyone use Protobuf for KMM project? Basically, my generated Protobuf files are in build folder, I generated both Kotlin and mandatory Java file. The problem is: I see generated files in androidMain but I cannot see generated Kotlin models in commonMain (which makes sense since they rely on Java file), and when I add files to sourceSets, Kotlin Proto files gets corrupted and are unable to resolve mandatory proto Java file. Did anyone encounter this and how did you solve it?

[Javier]

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-kotlin/issues/51

[Javier]

you should use wire

[Mario Loncar]

hm, yeah. I will give it a shot. Thanks! 🙂

[Darron Schall]

I'm using https://github.com/streem/pbandk for protobuf in a KMM app.

[Vidmantas Kerbelis]

Personally, I’d recommend Wire, at least for the interoperability between Android and iOS in our project that was the best solution.
My reasoning is in this thread:
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C3PQML5NU/p1663019385615999

[Mario Loncar]

What I basically want to achieve is: have Proto models in data layer which will be mapped to domain models (pure data classes) and exposed to iOS in form of use cases. So on iOS side developers wouldn’t even need to use Protobuf. I have to research this in more details. Thanks for the advice!