KiotaLock fails instantiation on the browser-wasm runtime

[andreaTP]

First of all, again, great work!
I have been hacking on what we discussed here #2131 , and everything but this little detail seems to work out of the box!

Running Kiota.Builder in the browser-wasm runtime I'm getting this exception when KiotaLock is instantiated:

Kiota.Builder.Lock.KiotaLock..ctor(GenerationConfiguration config)
   at Kiota.Builder.KiotaBuilder.UpdateLockFile(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Kiota.Builder.KiotaBuilder.GenerateClientAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at KiotaJs.Generate(String url, String language, String clientClassName, String namespaceName)
Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

** Reproducer **

• git clone https://github.com/andreaTP/kiota-wasm-poc.git
• comment out this section of the Dockerfile
• docker build . -t kiota-wasm-poc:latest
• docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 kiota-wasm-poc:latest
• (with a modern browser) navigate to http://localhost:8080 , open the developer tools console and press the Generate button

I have implemented a quick workaround here:
main...andreaTP:kiota:disable-reflection-in-lock

I haven't opened the relevant PR as I'm not sure what would be the best practice in the .NET world to solve those kinds of issues.

[baywet]

Thanks for reporting this. The interesting thing is that kiota web doesn't fail, but it doesn't set the right version information either.
That probably has to do with the way the application is published (version of the SDK & runtime, AOT vs no AOT, etc...) which leads me to think that this issue is 2 folds:

• depending on how the application is built, more or less APIs might be available/implemented
• web assembly modules probably don't carry as much metadata.

The best way forward to support those "platforms" properly, is probably to implement a source generator that'd look into the csproj and update a constant.

Would you like to take a crack at this?

[andreaTP]

Deal, I'll give it a spin tomorrow! Thanks for the reference @baywet !

[andreaTP]

@baywet , happy to report that, after fixing this issue I was able to successfully integrate Kiota in a project I'm working on:
Apicurio/apicurio-registry#3082

This project is growing strong!!!

[baywet]

ah so this is what you were up to! really cool integration! Thanks for sharing it.
Do you collect some kind of telemetry that'd allow you to tell how many clients are being generated and which languages are most used?

[andreaTP]

ah so this is what you were up to!

ehm, not really :-) this was actually just a quick spike that came up this week, our main interest in Kiota is for other purposes.

Regarding telemetry, that would be nice!
I'll check with the team what we can do.