In Ktor Server, we can get the path of a resource ...

# ktor

[Mario Andhika]

In Ktor Server, we can get the path of a resource by calling: href(MyResourceDTO()) . Is there a way to do this in Ktor Client also? I want to avoid hardcoding the paths.

[hfhbd]

The UrlBuilder.href function is part of the shared module, so it is available in the client too.

[Mario Andhika]

You’re right.

So I declared the resource like this:

@Resource("login")
class LoginRequest

but href(LoginRequest()) is giving me error None of the following candidates is applicable:

[Mario Andhika]

None of the following candidates is applicable:
fun <reified T : Any> HttpClient.href(resource: T): String
fun <reified T : Any> HttpClient.href(resource: T, urlBuilder: URLBuilder): Unit

[Mario Andhika]

I imported import io.ktor.client.plugins.resources.href on Ktor Client 3.0.1

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

You need to import the href function from the io.ktor.resources package and pass the resource format as the first argument:

import io.ktor.resources.*
import io.ktor.resources.serialization.ResourcesFormat

val str = href(ResourcesFormat(), LoginRequest())
println(str)

[Mario Andhika]

Thanks Aleksei