Ha omitting `response.close()` caused one of our servers to run out of memory today <@UBJF87EBY>. Ju...

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[Robert Menke]

Ha omitting response.close() caused one of our servers to run out of memory today @Dominaezzz. Just fixed it and fortunately had no downtime because ECS is pretty nice 🙂.

[e5l]

Hi @Robert Menke, Could you tell me why you receive HttpResponse instead of a data class?

[cy]

@e5l this makes impression that receiving response/call/ws-session is too dangerous. We probably need to deprecate and prohibit it and provide client....useResponse { ... } instead.

[Dominaezzz]

Ha, I luckily haven't deployed anything yet.

[Dominaezzz]

@e5l I receive HttpResponse because the server returns different Json object for success and error case. So if the code is 200, I call return response.receive<User>() else I call throw response.receive<CustomError>().

[e5l]

Thanks! I'll think how to support such API.

[Robert Menke]

@e5l We were interested in the status code returned by the server we were reaching out to in this case in addition to the data. Thanks for following up!