<https://stackoverflow.com/q/76750729/10334333> Can someone help me with this :pray:

# ktor

[Venkat]

https://stackoverflow.com/q/76750729/10334333

Can someone help me with this 🙏

[Chris Lee]

Use “/articles”.

[Venkat]

But I'm passing Root ("/") as parent to the Articles resource. So it will become "/articles" isn't it?

[Chris Lee]

Not for a top level class. See the docs re: nested classes.

[Venkat]

@Resource("/articles")
internal object Articles

@Resource("/article")
internal data class Article(val parent: Articles = Articles)

fun main() {
    embeddedServer(CIO, port = 8080){
        install(Resources)
        routing {
            get<Articles> {
                call.respondText("articles list")
            }
            get<Article> {
                call.respondText("article")
            }
        }
    }.start(true)
}

now it's the same again, it gives 405 for /articles but 404 /articles/article

[Venkat]

so only the root path works and all the sub-paths gives wrong status

[Chris Lee]

See the docs on nested classes.

[Venkat]

@Resource("/articles")
internal class Articles {
    @Resource("/article")
    internal data class Article(val parent: Articles = Articles())
}

fun main() {
    embeddedServer(CIO, port = 8080){
        install(Resources)
        routing {
            get<Articles> {
                call.respondText("articles list")
            }
            get<Articles.Article> {
                call.respondText("article")
            }
        }
    }.start(true)
}

[Venkat]

Ah ok, it should be in a nested class. Thanks, @Chris Lee somehow I overlooked the doc

[Venkat]

now it works!🙂

[Venkat]

@Resource("/articles")
class Articles {
    @Resource("{id}")
    class Id(val parent: Articles = Articles(), val id: Long)
}

fun main() {
    embeddedServer(CIO, port = 8080){
        install(Resources)
        routing {
            get<Articles> {
                call.respondText("articles list")
            }
            get<Articles.Id> {
                call.respondText("article123")
            }
        }
    }.start(true)
}

But it doesn't work for the path with parameter, in the above code I get the correct 405 PUT:/artcles but for PUT:/articles/12 I get the wrong 404 status again. @Chris Lee do you have any idea?

[Chris Lee]

Perhaps @Resource("/{id}") - paths always start with a /

[Venkat]

I tried that first and it doesn't work, that's why I removed the / as mentioned in the doc https://ktor.io/docs/type-safe-routing.html#resource_path_param

[Chris Lee]

your handles are for get - you’ve stated using PUT. Try just with GET requests firts.

[Venkat]

yes, GET works without any issue (either with or without /). My problem is the wrong status code for the method is not defined for the path. I'm expecting 405 Method not allowed but ktor gives 404 Not found

[Chris Lee]

is it documented to return a 405? that’s often framework-specific and a bit subjective; there is not a handler that accepts PUT at that url.

[Venkat]

and now the worst thing is, after this path parameter all subpaths give this same wrong status code. for example /articles/{id}/article

[Venkat]

is it documented to return a 405? that's often framework-specific and a bit subjective; there is not a handler that accepts PUT at that URL. it's the standard response https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/649 ktor already has this issue but it's closed for some reason

[Chris Lee]

like I said, it’s subjective as to how that should behave. It’s not obviously wrong to return a 404.
Why are you expecting a 405? Does that really matter to your solution?

[Venkat]

yes, because of some spec I need to return 405 otherwise I'm violating the spec.

[Chris Lee]

perhaps adjust the spec? requiring 405 is way down in the weeds.