[Idea] Support multi-platform targeting

[jeggy]

Copied from: pgutkowski#11

[CLOVIS-AI]

Is there any plan for this currently?

[jeggy]

I'm mostly focusing on trying to make it stable, reach version 1.0 and having full graphql support.

I have no experience with multi-platform in Kotlin, but maybe it's only small changes that are needed to make this library go multiplatform?

andylamax mention in the old thread that Kotlinx-Serialization is stable and could replace Jackson. If this is the only thing required, I'm willing to try to replace it.

We always welcome pull requests ;)

[CLOVIS-AI]

I'm only getting started on Kotlin/Multiplatform and I just discovered this project, so I don't think I'll be able to contribute right now, but maybe in the future I'll help with that ^^

[jeggy]

If you could provide a use-case, then I will pick it up sometime soon and investigate what's required to make it happen

[CLOVIS-AI]

Well, now that Kotlin/Multiplatform is available, it sounds like a waste to me to start a project that is constrained to one platform only. I know I'm going to only use libraries that are available on Multiplatform from now on, because it would be a waste of time to try to find a library for each platform and create an abstraction layer for them. I think most people are going to think somewhat similarly.

This lib offers so much potential that I don't think it's possible to find a version for each platform...

Well, I'm currently in the process of migrating a client of a REST API from Kotlin/JVM to Kotlin/Multiplatform (using Ktor, coroutines & serialization), maybe when that's done I'll try to help here, since the problem sounds similar from what I've read in both issues

[NathanPB]

I'm looking to port one of my projects to Kotlin Multiplatform too (which uses kGraphQL) and I think that we should start porting every dependency to Kotlin Multiplatform, and then replacing every use of the Java's stdlib to Kotlin equivalents.

In my project I will need to write a lib for async (I know there is Coroutines, but it looks like it does not work with JavaScript's async/await), an HTTP request library (there is Fuel, but it is not multiplatform, and I think Fuel is kinda overcomplicated), and Caffeine.

Taking a quick look into kGraphQL build.gradle.kts I see that you are also using Caffeine, so I guess that if we write a wrapper for Caffeine to work with its own implementation in Kotlin/JVM and the imp of another lib (like node-cache) in Kotlin/JS is a good idea and will get this project (and mine as well) a step closer to multiplatform.

Also no experience with Kotlin multiplatform, but I'm really interested in helping