How can I do a request during build-time to retrieve data and show it into my composables ?

# kobweb

[Ayfri]

How can I do a request during build-time to retrieve data and show it into my composables ?

[Norbi]

build-time?

[Ayfri]

I mean not during the website is running but during the website is exporting

[S.]

https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/tree/512ec9a9d5371d1072cdfd22c405dfd387e5e95d?tab=readme-ov-file#generating-site-code-at-compile-time

[S.]

this might be useful. don't know of any built-in functionality for this

[Ayfri]

This isn't exactly what I want. I want to download some data online from a precise link known before compiling, currently I'm using the fetch() API from DOM, but I want to do this during compiling, not when going on the website.

[S.]

you can just use the java http client in the gradle task

[Ayfri]

Aaah, okay, good to know ! So I should download the JSON at compile time, write down a file containing a string containing the entire JSON, then decode it using Kotlinx.Serialization ?

Or do you have any better solution maybe ? 🤔
The syntax of the JSON is defined by myself on another repo so I can do whatever I want with it and I know what will be the syntax

[S.]

apparently you can use kotlinx.serialisation directly in the gradle task by extending the JavaExec task, but I haven't tried this.
otherwise, yes, storing a json file and parsing it in the application code should work