When using Ktor client for consuimg REST API as fa...

# ktor

[Viktor Petrovski]

When using Ktor client for consuimg REST API as far as I understand

val status = HttpClient().use { client ->
    // ...
}

should be preferred to

client.get("<https://ktor.io/>")

So there is no need to call the .close() function

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Although it will be resource consuming if you create an HTTP client for each request.

[Viktor Petrovski]

Oh yeah of course not, the client will be passed to the constructor of the API, this was just an example

[Viktor Petrovski]

This doesn’t work tho, after the first request I get Parent job is Completed;

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Please share a code snippet.

[Viktor Petrovski]

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[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Could you please share a complete code snippet as text to reproduce your problem?

[Bogdan]

https://ktor.io/docs/client.html#close-client with this code, you need to recreate the HttpClient for each request

[Bogdan]

after close execution and completion of all requests (which started before calling close) - threads are stopped, closed coroutines scopes etc.

[Viktor Petrovski]

Yeah makes sense, I assume it’s not a good idea to create a new client for each request, but use the same one application wide