How to use AsyncGenerators with Kotlin/JS?

Question

I'm currently trying to use IPFS with Kotlin/JS, though my problem isn't specific to that. The ipfs.cat() and ipfs.get() functions return an AsyncGenerator and I'm unsure how to iterate over it with Kotlin (I'm not even sure which type would best represent an AsyncIterable in kotlin)

The below code is an minimal version of what I'm trying to do, though I have not tested the code as is below. It fails with a ClassCastException since the for loop is fundamentally wrong, but I don't know what I should replace it with.

File1:

@file:JsModule("ipfs-core")
@file:JsNonModule

import kotlin.js.Promise

@JsName("create")
external fun create(config: Any = definedExternally): Promise<dynamic>

File2:

create().then { ipfs: dynamic ->
    ipfs.id().then { id: dynamic ->
        myId = id.id as String
        println(JSON.stringify(id))
    }
    val result: dynamic = ipfs.cat("bafkreihapp6racx2xf5gwnrgtsr56r37kazui3jvzzmot2nx2t6h6g2oom")
    // result is an AsyncGenerator

    // below fails with ClassCastException
    for (element: dynamic in result){
        println(element)
    }
}

You would need to define all external classes in Kotlin. So you would have generated external classes for each type you want to use from specific npm module. Have you tried using `Dukat` to generate external classes for that specific npm module? — shaktiman_droid, Mar 29 '22 at 04:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '22 at 16:14

This was the solution I came up with: I needed to move everything into an async context and then I iterated manually over the AsyncGenerator:

                   val result: dynamic = ipfs.cat("bafkreihapp6racx2xf5gwnrgtsr56r37kazui3jvzzmot2nx2t6h6g2oom")
                   val resultArray = js("[]")
                   var cont: Boolean = true

                       while (cont) {
                           result.next().then { currentNext: dynamic ->
                               val value: dynamic = currentNext.value
                               val done: Boolean = currentNext.done
                               if (done) {
                                   println("done")
                                   cont = false
                               } else {
                                   println("got: ${currentNext.value}")
                                   resultArray.push(currentNext.value)
                               }
                           }
                       }
                       println(resultArray.joinToString("\n"))

How to use AsyncGenerators with Kotlin/JS?

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