Hi. We are trying to bump Kotlin to 1.7.10 and ktor to 2.0.3. We have a library LibA where we includ...

# ktor

[eirikb]

Hi. We are trying to bump Kotlin to 1.7.10 and ktor to 2.0.3.
We have a library LibA where we include ktor like this:

val ktorVersion = "2.0.3"
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-core:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-apache:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-json:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-jackson:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-logging-jvm:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-auth:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-websockets:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-okhttp:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-content-negotiation:$ktorVersion")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-serialization-jackson:$ktorVersion")

In another lib, LibB we include this lib.

implementation("ourgroup:ourapp:version")

When compiling LibB we get this error:

Cannot access class 'io.ktor.client.statement.HttpResponse'. Check your module classpath for missing or conflicting dependencies

We don't reference anything from ktor directly in LibB

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Does the LibB depend on Ktor library?

[eirikb]

It does not. It doesn't directly use ktor either

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Could you please share a sample project to reproduce this issue?

[eirikb]

The project is for a customer so I can't share much. I can however try to re-create the setup in two blank-ish projects

[eirikb]

Copied the projects and started removing stuff.
Found out this (client.use) is the problem:

suspend fun save() = client.use {
        <http://it.post|it.post>("")
    }

[eirikb]

Is the actual problem here that it is a "="-style function which will in this case return "HttpResponse" to the consumer, forcing it to add a dependency to ktor?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

So if you make the explicit HttpResponse type for the save function the problem disappears?

[eirikb]

No that would be the same. It is the same as doing
suspend fun save() = <http://client.post|client.post>(""). This will return HttpResonse.
Since this is returned to LibB, LibB needs to know about that class.
I would expect it to know about it though LibA, but it does not.
It was probably not intentional to expose HttpResponse from LibA in the first place

[eirikb]

I'm not sure how good it is, but a quickfix is to say the return type is Unit

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

You can either expose the HttpResponse type to the LibB (api("io.ktor:ktor-client-core:$ktorVersion")) or return void from the save function as you wrote.

[eirikb]

Wonder why it worked before, the code hasn't changed (much), at least not this part. Unless it has, I wasn't part of that

[eirikb]

And of course, there it is.
It used to be <http://it.post|it.post><Unit>, but it should be <http://it.post|it.post>().body<Unit> now I think. And thus it was never cast to Unit

[eirikb]

Thanks for the help. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Funny how I immediately jump to the wrong conclusions. Gradle tells me exactly what and where the problem is, yet I think it's Intellij, then IntelliJ+Gradle, then Gradle, then Kotlin etc..