Hello! I am building a mutliplatform application w...

# ktor

[Nishant Aanjaney Jalan]

Hello! I am building a mutliplatform application with ktor. My project structure looks like this:

|- composeApp/
|- gradle/
|- iosApp/
|- server/
|  |- src/
|  |- build.gradle.kts
|- shared/
|  |- src/
|  |- build.gradle.kts
|- build.gradle.kts
|- settings.gradle.kts

Now I have ktor-server dependencies in :server and I have ktor-client dependencies in :shared. I am aware that although the ktor-server-core and ktor-client-core must belong to the respective modules, I want to know if there is any real difference between the dependencies of ktor-*-content-negotation and ktor-*-resources. Currently, what's happening is that I have two identical data classes with @Resources, but the tag comes from different dependencies. Is there a way to go around this issue?

in other words, :shared has a class @Resource("/article") data class Article(...) and I have the same class in :server. But :shared uses ktor-client-resources while :server uses ktor-server-resources.

[hfhbd]

The Ressource annotation class is defined in the ktor-resources, so I don’t get your question.

[hfhbd]

And why do you use a client dependency in shared?

[Nishant Aanjaney Jalan]

Hello. According to the ktor documentation, they mentioned I used use ktor-client-resources and ktor-server-resources. So that's what I have currently.

I am a bit new to KMP, do you not do that? I was under the impression that shared is for the app's shared business logic code. Is it not?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

You can store the resource classes in the shared module and refer to them in the client (this additional module can be created) and server modules, I think.

I want to know if there is any real difference between the dependencies of ktor-*-content-negotation and ktor-*-resources

If you mean the difference between the client and server versions for each module, then they are different because they contain specific functionality for the HTTP client or HTTP server, respectively.

[Nishant Aanjaney Jalan]

I went through the ktor git repo to see that ktor-resources is the common resources module for both client and server, something I was looking for. I think that can be made specific in the docs on ktor.