Hi all, I'm trying out Ktor for the first time and...

# server

[Marcel Champagne]

Hi all, I'm trying out Ktor for the first time and immediately running into issues. I'm just trying to follow the basis HTTP client setup. I used the Kotlin Intellij Plugin and everything builds fine but the second I try to make a get request I'm getting an error.

The following code doesn't compile with line 16, but does without:

14 fun Application.module(testing: Boolean = false) {
15    val client = HttpClient(CIO)
16    val htmlContent = client.get<String>("<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>")
17 }

But I the the following error

Error:(16, 30) Kotlin: Unresolved reference. None of the following candidates is applicable because of receiver type mismatch:

public inline operator fun <K, V> Map<out String, [ERROR : Explicit type argument expected for V]>.get(key: String): [ERROR : Explicit type argument expected for V]? defined in kotlin.collections

public operator fun MatchGroupCollection.get(name: String): MatchGroup? defined in kotlin.text

[Marc Knaup]

Kotlin’s error messages are quite confusing when it comes to extension functions.

You have to import the get method first:

import io.ktor.client.request.*

And your function must be a `suspend fun`:

suspend fun Application.module(testing: Boolean = false) {

[Marc Knaup]

#ktor is better suited for getting Ktor-related help 😉