I’m trying out type safe routing and I have diffic...

# ktor

[jean]

I’m trying out type safe routing and I have difficulties with this case :

@Serializable
@Resource("/search")
class Search(
    val query: String? = null,
    val offset: Offset? = null,
    val limit: Limit? = null,
) : ApiResource() {
    @Serializable
    @Resource("type1")
    class Type1(
        val parent: Search = Search(),
        val query: String,
        val offset: Offset,
        val limit: Limit,
    )

    @Serializable
    @Resource("type2")
    class Type2(
        val parent: Search = Search(),
        val query: String,
        val offset: Offset,
        val limit: Limit,
    )

...

get<ApiResource.Search> { request ->
    call.respond("search works. Query: ${request.query}") // This works
}

get<ApiResource.Search.Type1> { request ->
    call.respond("search type1 works. Query: ${request.query}") // this gives me a 404 error
}

What am I supposed to change to make it work? The parameter query is used to search by name in a database. /query will search for both type1 and type2 while search/type1 should return only type1 results

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Since query , offset and limit are required and you don’t list those parameters in the Resource annotation (@Resource("type1")) you have to make a request with corresponding query parameters, e.g. /search/type1?query=123&offset=1&limit=10 , otherwise that route won’t be matched.

[jean]

of course 🤦 Is there a better way to manage query , offset and limit without repeating it for each child?