Hey! Running into a silly problem. I want to set the Content-Type to application/json but I don’t wa...

# ktor

[gotoOla]

Hey! Running into a silly problem. I want to set the Content-Type to application/json but I don’t want to use the serialization of jackson or gson. When I set the content-type in the request itself I get a UnsafeHeaderException and it states that it should be set from the engine

[Deactivated User]

https://ktor.io/quickstart/faq.html#UnsafeHeaderException

[Deactivated User]

https://ktor.io/servers/calls/responses.html#sending-response-content

[Deactivated User]

The idea is to set the content-type along the response

[Deactivated User]

For example: call.respondText("p { background: red; }", contentType = ContentType.Text.CSS, status = HttpStatusCode.OK)

[gotoOla]

this is in an httpClient, so we do a client.post like this

val response = client.post<HttpResponse>(updateUrl) {
body = payload
contentType(ContentType.Application.Json)
}

[Deactivated User]

oh I see

[gotoOla]

so it’s not server side on the response-part

[Deactivated User]

https://ktor.io/clients/http-client/calls/requests.html#specifying-a-body-for-requests

body = TextContent("HELLO WORLD!", ContentType.Text.Plain)

?

[Deactivated User]

the content type is still part of the OutgoingContent, so when you generate one, you have to specify it there

[gotoOla]

ah I see, this looks like what I am after

[gotoOla]

wkr

[gotoOla]

worked splendidly. Thanks for the help!