Hello! How do you make type safe requests with Kto...
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Isak Hansson
04/20/2023, 1:04 PMHello! How do you make type safe requests with Ktor on both the secret and the client? Do you simply put the content negotiation and resources classes in a shared module and call it good enough?
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Cies
04/20/2023, 1:08 PMsecret = server? I did this type of thing with OpenAPIv3 and GraphQL: two ways to achieve fully type API barriers. Bonus these two provide ways to generate client libs in a plethora of languages.
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Isak Hansson
04/20/2023, 1:10 PMYes sorry typo. Did you implement both a Ktor server and GraphQL server then?
Isak Hansson
04/20/2023, 1:12 PMMy use case is for the server to be the backend of multiple Kotlin Multiplatform apps. Don't see the value of GraphQL when everything is already in Kotlin.
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Cies
04/20/2023, 1:21 PMI was more commenting on typed APIs in general. GraphQL i used with Hasura on the server side.
Cies
04/20/2023, 1:22 PMBut in an all Kotlin situation I'd make a shared folder with DTOs used by both client and server.
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Isak Hansson
04/20/2023, 1:22 PMGot it thanks!
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Thomas Urbanitsch
04/20/2023, 1:37 PMI haven’t used this yet, but there is also type-safe routing which you might also benefit from:
• Server: https://ktor.io/docs/type-safe-routing.html
• Client: https://ktor.io/docs/type-safe-request.html
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