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[Thiago]

Kotlin Routing new core release after months 😄
• You can now send and receive body objects to avoid parameters limitations
• Check whether a route can be handled by RouteMethod too
• Redirect to another route that haven't the same RouteMethod.
https://github.com/programadorthi/kotlin-routing/releases/tag/0.0.18

[hallvard]

How about implementing the possibility to define all routes in one place in a compact manner? In the Play framework, one sets out with one line per route, resulting in a very compact and neat overview of all the routes in an application: https://www.playframework.com/documentation/3.0.x/JavaRouting#The-routes-file-syntax

Having the possibility to define all routes of an app with this Play!-syntax in Ktor (or via Kotlin Routing) would be a very nice feature, both for me, who have been wanting it for a long time, and for others who might be tempted to migrate from Play! to Ktor.

(just my two pennies' worth.)

[Thiago]

Nice feature. But as Kotlin Routing is fully based on Ktor, when it supports I think a can support too.
How Play Framework reads and tranforms route file syntax to real Java objects? Do it by reflection?

[hallvard]

I am unaware of how the Play framework does it. They're heavily depending on scala, and when I compile a Play project, a lot of intermediate files appear that I have never bothered looking at. But defining all paths in a server project in one single file, one line per path, gives an extremely compact overview of the server!

Simply generating the needed DSL from a list of paths before anything else happens could be done with a compiler plugin, I guess ...

Well, as I said, this was just a thought. And I haven't thought it through. 🙂

[Thiago]

I understood. It would be nice to implement, but I'm keeping things close to Ktor to be familiar for devs using Ktor Server or Client. 😄

[Thiago]

Instead of declaring like Play Framework, now you can use annotations to have a close behavior. Checkout here.