I am using ktor with ContentNegotiation. What is t...

# server

[Kristian Nedrevold]

I am using ktor with ContentNegotiation. What is the idiomatic way to handle the unchecked exceptions you can get when retrieving a response using ktor client?
example code val responseData: ReservedCitizenResponse = response.body(). If there is something wrong in the response body this will just crash with an JsonDecodingException as an unchecked exception. It would be nice if the .body() function returned a Result monad so you could handle the cases of successful and unsuccessful serialization.

[Kristian Nedrevold]

val responseData: ReservedCitizenResponse = try {response.body() } catch (e: Exception) { return Result.failure(NHNInvalidResponseBodyException("Json response does not match expected fields\ne${e.message}")) }

This is how I have solved it for now, which is not very elegant, but does allow me to return early.

[Landry Norris]

You can use StatusPages if you want to return a generic error.