[ASK] Best Practices For Merging Network Call Data into Custom Model.

[mezzav]

Hello,

I am having some trouble wrapping my head around how to handle multiple network calls (probably because I am new to kotlin and android development). Given two network calls, A and B, which are not dependent on each other, how would I go about "merging" the data from both network calls into a custom model.

It is similar to the example provided in the Google article regarding the Domain Layer

I am thinking a nested .onSuccess lambda might work but not sure if it would be best practice. I was looking at the Model Mapper documentation but I am a bit confused on how to use it in this case. Would a Flow approach be better even though this would be a one-shot network call?

class GetMovieDetailsWithCast @Inject constructor(
    private val repository: NetworkTMDBRepository,
) {
    suspend operator fun invoke(id: Int) {
        val movie =  repository.fetchMovieDetails(id) // ApiResponse<NetworkMovieDetails>
        val credits = repository.fetchMovieCredits(id) // ApiResponse<NetworkMovieCredits>

        /* do some processing here */

        MovieDetailsWithCredits(movie = movie, credits = credits) // where movie and credits are  of NetworkMovieDetails and NetworkMovieCredits

    }
}

Thanks in advance.