How do you structure and setup your routes in the ...

# ktor

[Ahmed Riyadh]

How do you structure and setup your routes in the Ktor server? I wonder if there is built-in way to do it like express js framework

[Bruce Hamilton]

You can check out https://ktor.io/docs/routing-in-ktor.html

It's expressed pretty similar to express js

[Ahmed Riyadh]

I meant the Router pattern, you create a instance of a class, register all of your routes inside that instance and use this instance in the routing {} block to register them all

[Ahmed Riyadh]

I wonder if it built-in into Ktor server, if not then guess I will have to build it myself :)

[Bruce Hamilton]

Generally people just use extension methods for this sort of thing, though I guess it's a personal preference on how you prefer to structure your routing code. I don't believe there's a common approach that adheres to exactly what you're describing.

[Ahmed Riyadh]

If you are using Koin with tons of services then you have to pass them all the time to all the functions to where you need them

[Ahmed Riyadh]

Because you can't inject them there in the Route extension function

[AdamW]

Why not?

[Ahmed Riyadh]

Because Koin support injecting only in the Application scope

[AdamW]

https://insert-koin.io/docs/reference/koin-ktor/ktor

Koin inject() and get() functions are available from Application,Route,Routing classes:

[Ahmed Riyadh]

I just tried it out and yes I can, maybe that's a feature in the new releases and I was using an old version back then or I misunderstood

[Ahmed Riyadh]

You can't inject it in the get or any http method handler though

[AdamW]

What are you lacking if you inject dependencies outside of the route handler itself? IMO that makes a lot of sense, in this example at least