Is it possible to override response headers? I’m requesting a resource that is a JSON file, but it i...

# ktor

[KamilH]

Is it possible to override response headers? I’m requesting a resource that is a JSON file, but it is in the text file and response Content-Type header is application/octet-stream. That is why when I’m requesting this resource, I’m getting No transformation found exception, because Json serializer doesn’t know it should parse this file. When I tell serializer to handle also this content type it works properly:

install(JsonFeature) {
    serializer = serializerProvider.get()
    accept(ContentType.Application.Json, ContentType.Application.OctetStream)
}

but it fell a little bit hacky to do it for all requests
Is there a better solution? (of course the best it would be to fix it on the API side, but I don’t have an access to it)

[Ali Albaali]

The accept function seems the most appropriate for me. Otherwise you could interrupt the request by installing a custom feature to change the header, checkout this.

[KamilH]

Good idea, thanks. This way I could limit this solution to only the endpoint I know needs this