what can I use in http4k to create a body like thi...

# http4k

[elect]

what can I use in http4k to create a body like this for a POST?
> -d '{"ref":"refs/heads/featureA","sha":"aa218f56b14c9653891f9e74264a383fa43fefbd"}'

[fredrik.nordin]

This from the docs will hopefully help.

[James Richardson]

import org.http4k.core.Body
import org.http4k.core.Method
import org.http4k.core.Request
import org.http4k.core.Uri
import org.http4k.core.with
import org.http4k.format.Jackson.json
import org.http4k.format.Jackson.asJsonObject

println(Request(<http://Method.POST|Method.POST>, Uri.of("")).body("""{"ref":"refs/heads/featureA","sha":"aa218f56b14c9653891f9e74264a383fa43fefbd"}"""))

val body =  Body.json().toLens()

println(Request(<http://Method.POST|Method.POST>, Uri.of("")).with(body of mapOf("ref" to "refs/heads/featureA", "sha" to "aa218f56b14c9653891f9e74264a383fa43fefbd").asJsonObject()))

something like those two? - there are quite a few ways, just depending on how you're feeling... - you can of course make DTO types etc...

[elect]

I was hoping for something out of the box and concise
the only example in the docs for outgoing is getting injected by a local defined variable

[elect]

your first example is exactly what I'm doing rn, James
the second one I cant get to compile.. what's .json() exactly? This?

import org.http4k.format.KotlinxSerialization.json

[James Richardson]

i put all the imports in the example above just copy them. ( as sometimes intellij gets confused)

[elect]

sorry, the import optimization or myself messed them up

[elect]

fixed, now it works

[elect]

I'll write my own shorter version of that, thanks!

[James Richardson]

can it be shorter? 😂

[elect]

lemme try 😛

[James Richardson]

or use a data class of the right shape...

import org.http4k.format.Jackson.auto
data class RefSha(val ref: String, val sha: String)
val autoBody = Body.auto<RefSha>().toLens()
println(Request(<http://Method.POST|Method.POST>, Uri.of("")).with(autoBody of RefSha(ref="refs/heads/featureA", sha="aa218f56b14c9653891f9e74264a383fa43fefbd")))

[elect]

ah, that's what I wanted

[James Richardson]

all are valid ways of making the body, they just have different tradeoffs.