After a quick search on this channel and the web, it looks like to me there is no convenient way of ...

# ktor

[jean]

After a quick search on this channel and the web, it looks like to me there is no convenient way of setting a base url value?
I saw people suggested to use this

HttpClient(CIO) {
        defaultRequest {
            url {
                host = "<https://my.host.com>"
                port = 443
            }
        }
        install(JsonFeature) {
            serializer = GsonSerializer()
        }
    }

I does not work when I try to use it with client.get<ApiResponse<Character>>("/endpoint") Am I doing anything wrong?

[jean]

I ended up creating this

private suspend fun get(path: String, parameters: Map<String, String>): SomeType {
        return client.get(
            scheme = "https",
            host = "<http://my.host.com|my.host.com>",
            port = 8080,
            path = path
        ) { addParameters(parameters) }
    }

and call it like get("my/path", parameters)

[Nicolas Chevalier]

You can do

protected fun HttpRequestBuilder.apiUrl(path: String) {
        url {
            takeFrom(baseUrl)
            encodedPath = path
        }
    }

and use it like this:

val response: HttpResponse = <http://client.post|client.post> {
            apiUrl(path)
            addParameters(parameters)
        }

[Nicolas Chevalier]

this allow you to have this on every http method (get, post, …)

[jean]

right, I’ll try that, thanks 🙂