Hi I try to make a request with a body of id s So I have a s kotlinlang #ktor

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dambakk

03/13/2020, 5:32 PM

Hi! I try to make a request with a body of id’s. So I have a serializable data class IdWrapper(val id: String) and set the body of the request to a list of IdWrapper instances. I though that should be it, but I get an exception saying “IdWrapper cannot be cast to String” when setting the `HttpRequestBuilder`’s body. Why is it expecting a String? Shouldn’t it accept

Any

serializable object?

I have installed the

JsonFeature

and annotated the data class with

Serializable

. I have also tried to convert the list to json manually using

Json.nonstrict.toJson(…)

but this results in a

JsonObject cannot be cast to String

exception.

c

corneil

03/13/2020, 8:09 PM

If you look at the specification HTTP bodies are

String

media type gives a hint of how to convert the string. A binary blob becomes base64 encoded string.

d

dambakk

03/16/2020, 7:56 AM

I have already set Content-Type header to application/json. Anything else I should specify? All my other requests works fine, except this one which tries to set a List of objects as body. @corneil

I got it now… I had to wrap my list of objects in another object. E.g.:

data class IdObject(
  val id: String
)

data class IdList(
  val ids: List<IdObject>
)

Worked on first try 🙂

(And write a custom serializer according to this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52971069/ktor-serialize-deserialize-json-with-list-as-root-in-multiplatform)

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