Can I somehow get away from these exceptions? I'm ...

# ktor

[Jan]

Can I somehow get away from these exceptions? I'm handling these myself

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

You can disable default response validation by setting expectSuccess property to `false`https://ktor.io/docs/response-validation.html#default

[Jan]

thanks 😄

[Jan]

But then this doesn't call?:

HttpResponseValidator {
            handleResponseException {
                val clientException = it as? ClientRequestException ?: return@handleResponseException
                errorHandler.handle(clientException)
            }
        }

[Jan]

in the http client

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

What do you mean?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Could you please describe your problem?

[Jan]

when I set the expectSuccess to false, the response validator thing doesnt get called. Thats my full builder:

val http = HttpClient {
        config.httpClientConfig(this)
        defaultRequest {
            header("Authorization", "Bot ${config.token}")
            header("User-Agent", "<http://Discord.KM|Discord.KM> (\$<https://github.com/jan-tennert/Discord.KM>, $0.3)")
        }

        HttpResponseValidator {
            handleResponseException {
                val clientException = it as? ClientRequestException ?: return@handleResponseException
                errorHandler.handle(clientException)
            }
        }

        expectSuccess = false
    }

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

It gets called if any exceptions are thrown. You can use validateResponse inside HttpResponseValidator to validate a response.

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

So you can disable default response validation and do it by yourself.