Does htt4k have any support for generating HTML re...

# http4k

[Mikael Ståldal]

Does htt4k have any support for generating HTML responses with kotlinx-html?

[s4nchez]

What kind of support would you expect for that? As kotlin-html allows generating the HTML as string, one can simply inject that to the body response.

[s4nchez]

We could perhaps extend the templating abstraction to use it, but I wonder what's to be gained given it's all Kotlin anyway.

[Mikael Ståldal]

It would be nice to have a lens for it, so that you get proper Content-Type header and possibly make use of streaming.

[Mikael Ståldal]

You can do this:

val htmlLens =
        Body.string(TEXT_HTML).map<String>({ throw UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot parse") }, { it }).toLens()

Response(OK).with(htmlLens of createHTML().div { +"some text" })

But it would be nice to utilize the streaming to Appendable .

[Mikael Ståldal]

A template abstraction would probably be overkill.

[Mikael Ståldal]

But it seems like the template abstraction does not allow streaming either, even though at least some of the template engines support that.

[Mikael Ståldal]

It would be nice to factor out the createHTML() part into a lens, but not sure how do to that since it returns a TagConsumer you are supposed to fire events on.