Getting this weird error trying to deserialize fai...

# ktor

[Big Chungus]

Getting this weird error trying to deserialize fairly long json response

Exception in thread "main" io.ktor.utils.io.charsets.TooLongLineException: Line is longer than limit
    at io.ktor.utils.io.ByteBufferChannel$readUTF8LineToUtf8Suspend$2.invoke(ByteBufferChannel.kt:2022)
    at io.ktor.utils.io.ByteBufferChannel$readUTF8LineToUtf8Suspend$2.invoke(ByteBufferChannel.kt:1960)
    at io.ktor.utils.io.ByteBufferChannel.read$suspendImpl(ByteBufferChannel.kt:1648)
    at io.ktor.utils.io.ByteBufferChannel.read(ByteBufferChannel.kt)
    at io.ktor.utils.io.ByteBufferChannel.readUTF8LineToUtf8Suspend(ByteBufferChannel.kt:1960)
    at io.ktor.utils.io.ByteBufferChannel.access$readUTF8LineToUtf8Suspend(ByteBufferChannel.kt:23)
    at io.ktor.utils.io.ByteBufferChannel$readUTF8LineToUtf8Suspend$1.invokeSuspend(ByteBufferChannel.kt)
    at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)

Here's my code spawning the issue

override suspend fun <T> FlowCollector<T>.emitItems(
    deserializer: KSerializer<T>,
    response: HttpResponse
  ) {
    val stream = response.bodyAsChannel().toInputStream()
    Json.decodeToSequence(
      stream = stream,
      deserializer = deserializer,
      format = DecodeSequenceMode.ARRAY_WRAPPED
    ).forEach { emit(it) }.also { stream.close() }
  }

Any clues what might be wrong (no kdocs on the exception)?

[Big Chungus]

In case anyone else faces this in the future, the exception basically means your request url was too long (i had way too many parameters).

[Stylianos Gakis]

What defines "too long" here? 😅

[Big Chungus]

Didn't capture that sadly, but that exception is only thrown once in the client codebase so you should be able to find the condition for it fairly easily.

[Big Chungus]

Looks like it's Int.MAX_VALUE (2147483647) "most" of the time.

[Stylianos Gakis]

I am now scared, what was in that url

[Big Chungus]

Lots of ids returned in the previous request apparently, wasn't expecting to get the entire history of ids since the dawn of time returned in a single json object property...