Hey, how do I use (non-

reified

) generics with the ktor client?

Hi @ribesg, what kind of

T

do you want to use?

I’m using

kotlinx.serialization

, so I guess any data class with the annotation?

Could you try

suspend fun <T> get(url: String): T =  
        client.get<T>(url)

?

Doesn’t change anything, it suggests removing it and I still get

Cannot use 'T' as reified type parameter. Use a class instead.

It's a bug in IDE: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-30265. You have to specify

T

explicitly when the parameter can't be reified cause of type erasure.

Yes I know that but that doesn’t really help, it means you can’t wrap the ktor client in any class/object. I have to change my plans accordingly. I think I understand why it should not work.

You could use

inline

methods with

reified

with

get

like methods. Also you could use

call

or

get<HttpResponse>

explicitly.