Support RunBlocking (Ktor Network calls in a Synchronous manner)

[cody1024d]

I was hoping things have potentially changed since this: #678

I tried using the work around described there, but to no success.

My use case is as follows:

I am writing a framework to be used during the testing process of IOS and Android. Within this process I will need to perform several network calls (for authentication reasons) before my tests can execute, and thus I need to run Ktor in a blocking manner.

Is there any work arounds, etc. that can be done to support this?

[uOOOO]

Sometimes only network call methods should be exposed not whole MV* pattern in kotlin native multiplatform shared code. So I think this is very necessary feature.

[bootstraponline]

I agree this would be awesome. We're thinking about Kotlin multiplatform at Robinhood. This is one of the blocking issues for us.

[oleg-larshin]

Please check the following ticket on YouTrack for follow-ups to this issue. GitHub issues will be closed in the coming weeks.

[e5l]

Kotlix.coroutines now have runTest to solve this issue: https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-test/kotlinx.coroutines.test/run-test.html