Hello all, I could not find anything on the absolu...

# ktor

[Hadi]

Hello all,
I could not find anything on the absolute path in Ktor routing on the internet. Do you know a way one can link to a path generated form absolute top level of the app? e.g.

route("") {
    route("/{year}/{month?}/{day?}") {
        get {
            call.respondHtml{
                title { +"title" }
                body {
                    a (href = "$baseUrl/somepath") { +"link to top level" }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

In this example, if I do href="/somepath", it will go to different places if month or day is given.

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Could you please explain what do you mean by a path generated from the absolute top level of the app?

[Hadi]

Hi Alekseit, thanks for the reply. I wondered if (in the example above) one could use a link created with absolute path in the href. So if you are in the route("someEndpoint") and do a (href="/test"), you will get a link which is /someEndpoint/test for the href. However, if you want to get to /test, you need to do a (href="../test"). This works in a normal route method. But when your route has optional arguments as above, this will give /test, /year/test or /year/month/test if no month and day is given, month is given or month and day are given, respectively.

[Hadi]

What I need is a method that would always point to the baseUrl of the app, namely, when you say a (href=$baseUrl/test) it always returns /test no matter which route your are currently in.

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

When I use href = "/test" then a web browser always points me to <protocol://host>:port/test no matter what the current URL is, e.g. http://localhost:8080/2020/10/23. Please describe how exactly do you observe such behavior?

[Hadi]

Oh I am really sorry. You're actually right. My mistake was that since I have install(IgnoreTrailingSlash), I did not put the leading / in the path for href. Without the leading slash it follows current path but with that it goes form the base path. Thanks a lot. 👍