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This has me confused. I just started a new ktor project and this was amongst the things that I got as part of the ktor project generator page. Apparently intellij doesn’t recognize `startsWith` as a method that can be called on a string :open_mouth: Any clues?

I cannot reproduce it so most likely this is an IDE problem.

If it is relevant, the older ktor project I have, has the following return type when it comes to `call.request.path()` -&gt; `kotlin.String`while the newest ktor version returns a `String` type. Does this matter?

<@U017TSBJ2C9>: Maybe, but I am using the same IDE for both the older and the new project, so how do I go about troubleshooting this?

Can you share a project where you observe an error?

<https://start.ktor.io#/settings?name=ktor-starter-example-graphql&amp;website=capgemini.com&amp;artifact=com.capgemini.ktor-starter-example-graphql&amp;kotlinVersion=1.7.0&amp;ktorVersion=2.0.2&amp;buildSystem=GRADLE_KTS&amp;engine=NETTY&amp;configurationIn=CODE&amp;addSampleCode=true&amp;plugins=routing%2Ccontent-negotiation%2Cshutdown-url%2Ckotlinx-serialization%2Ccall-logging%2Ccors|https://start.ktor.io#/settings?name=ktor-starter-example-graphql&amp;website=capgemini[…]n%2Cshutdown-url%2Ckotlinx-serialization%2Ccall-logging%2Ccors>

Note that I had to change kotlin version to 1.7.0 in the plugin in order to get the build to complete

`IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2.4 (Community Edition)`
`Build #IC-212.5712.43, built on December 21, 2021`
`Runtime version: 11.0.13+8-b1504.49 aarch64`
`VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.`
`macOS 11.4`
`GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation`
`Memory: 2048M`
`Cores: 8`
`Registry: ide.intellij.laf.enable.animation=true, ide.balloon.shadow.size=0`
`Non-Bundled Plugins: wu.seal.tool.jsontokotlin (3.7.4), com.villains.intelij.plugin.trashpandatheme (1.13), monokai-pro (1.8.1), net.antelle.intellij-xcode-dark-theme (1.2.4), com.mallowigi (50.2.0), com.mallowigi.idea (16.0), com.intellij.lang.jsgraphql (3.1.4), DBN (3.3.1779.0), org.jetbrains.kotlin (212-1.7.0-release-281-IJ5457.46), org.spekframework (2.0.18-IJ2021.2)`
`Kotlin: 212-1.7.0-release-281-IJ5457.46`

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce it even with your versions of IDEA and the Kotlin plugin.

Strange, I’ll try upgrading IDEA version.

You can try to disable all non-bundled plugins. Also, you can <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=KTIJ|file an issue>.

Interesting, the newest IDEA version seems to solve this. Very strange indeed.