Support for Kotlin Multiplatform

[mcpierce]

I'm hoping to find that this is already happening, but has any thought been given to making the Kotlin library multiplatform compatible? I have a project that's targeting both iOS and Android and its core function is to work with a server that provides an OPDS API to access its content, and a cross-platform Readium library would be ideal for this.

[qnga]

Hi,
Yes, we want to do it. I doubt it will be completed before one year though, at least if Mickaël and I have to do all the work. Subliminal message: feel free to do it. We can provide you with guidance.

[mcpierce]

@qnga I'm hitting another issue where the parser is complaining about the server content. The server is returning OPDS XML content but, for some reason, the instance of OPDS2Parser is trying to treat it as JSON:

Caused by: org.json.JSONException: Value <?xml of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject

[qnga]

Try the OPDS1Parser. OPDS 1 is XML-based and OPDS2 is JSON-based.

[mcpierce]

That was the trick! Thank you, I'm now up and running with reading the OPDS stream from my server.

That being said, I've hit a bug with feed entries that include a URL encoded ":" and opened bug #548 to get it looked at. But otherwise I'm doing great now! Thank you so much for you help!

[mickael-menu]

It look like the repositories are focused on v3 which I can't currently use.

If you're concerned by the beta status, I think by the time you release your app it will be stable. The current Kotlin v3 is pretty stable, we're just waiting for the Swift version to catch up before doing the proper release.

[mcpierce]

@mickael-menu Okay, that's good to know.