Hi, I am trying to compress the body of a request ...

# ktor

[Federico Tomassetti]

Hi,
I am trying to compress the body of a request I am sending from client written with Ktor.

I have added the encoding plugin:

implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-encoding:$ktorVersion") // ktorVersion=2.3.8

I configured compression in my client:

private val client = HttpClient(CIO){
        install(ContentEncoding) {
            deflate(1.0F)
            gzip(0.9F)
        }
    }

However I cannot import the compress extension method presented here: https://api.ktor.io/ktor-client/ktor-client-plugins/ktor-client-encoding/io.ktor.client.plugins.compression/compress.html

Do you have any idea why is this the case?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

The HttpRequestBuilder.compress has been introduced in Ktor 3.0.0-beta-1 , so Ktor 2.3.8 doesn't have it. For some reason this method is included in the Ktor 2.3.8 API documentation.

[Federico Tomassetti]

Oh, I see, thank you