Kotlin multi platform support

[zivkovic]

I see you have KMP in your project roadmap. Is there an approximate timeline for it?
Can I ask what the current problems/issues with supporting KMP are, if you maybe know already?

Thank you!

[nesk]

Hi,

The current plan is to stabilize Akkurate for the JVM and provide basic integrations, with Ktor for example.

Akkurate will be multiplatform, but I don't want to rush this. Actually, it's already multiplatform-compatible, but only the JVM target is enabled.

What are your use cases? It might help me prioritize this feature. 🙂

[zivkovic]

Sorry for the late response, didn't see you replied already 😐

My plan is to create most of the validation in the common code (so it can be shared by server and all clients) and then implement the rest of the server validation separately. Using this I could have the same validation messages (translated in common). It would simplify the validation, because no round trip to the server would be required and all clients would have the same validation.

[nesk]

What I had in plan was to release multiplatform support with additional constraints for some librairies like kotlinx-datetime. But maybe it would be a better thing to provide multiplatform earlier. 🤔

What compilation targets would you be interested in?

[zivkovic]

Well, the following (which is basically all of them to be honest):

• JVM (backend)
• Android (phone only)
• iOS (phone only)
• Javascript (currently in experimental phase, not even sure I will be able to use common code as much I would like, but am still trying)

[zivkovic]

I managed to check this library a bit more in detail and the issue I found for now(to use it only with JVM for start and then move validation to common later when KMP is supported) is that I cannot add the @Validate annotation to the classes as they exist inside of the common module. Is there a possibility you could move the annotation (and classes for it to work etc) to a separate package, ex: akkurate-api?

If that would make it work, I guess this would be the minimal support for now. Otherwise, I will wait for the support in the meantime.

Thanks.

[nesk]

I'm not sure I want to move this annotation in another new package, this could be cumbersome for developers. However, if needed, I will merge it back into the main package akkurate-core. 🙂

Thank you for your feedback about multiplatform. It could be a good idea to speed up things on this feature because you're not the only one to ask for, I will keep you updated!

[nesk]

Akkurate is now multiplatform :)