Hi everyone! I cannot add Ktor Client to Spring Bo...

# spring

[Lucas León]

Hi everyone! I cannot add Ktor Client to Spring Boot Maven project. I’m trying to add Ktor Client to my Spring Boot Maven project but IntelliJ does not detect the dependencies. Already tried with reimporting maven dependencies, cleaning cache, mvn idea:idea and also creating another Spring Boot Maven project in a different machine and still doesn’t work.
This is my pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="<http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0>" xmlns:xsi="<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>"
         xsi:schemaLocation="<http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0> <https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd>">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.3</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>demoproject</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>demoproject</name>
    <description>demoproject</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <kotlin.version>1.6.10</kotlin.version>
        <ktor.version>1.6.7</ktor.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-module-kotlin</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.projectreactor.kotlin</groupId>
            <artifactId>reactor-kotlin-extensions</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
            <artifactId>kotlin-reflect</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
            <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib-jdk8</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlinx</groupId>
            <artifactId>kotlinx-coroutines-reactor</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.ktor</groupId>
            <artifactId>ktor-client-core</artifactId>
            <version>${ktor.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.ktor</groupId>
            <artifactId>ktor-client-cio</artifactId>
            <version>${ktor.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.ktor</groupId>
            <artifactId>ktor-client-serialization</artifactId>
            <version>${ktor.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
            <artifactId>reactor-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/kotlin</sourceDirectory>
        <testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/test/kotlin</testSourceDirectory>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
                <artifactId>kotlin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <args>
                        <arg>-Xjsr305=strict</arg>
                    </args>
                    <compilerPlugins>
                        <plugin>spring</plugin>
                    </compilerPlugins>
                </configuration>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
                        <artifactId>kotlin-maven-allopen</artifactId>
                        <version>${kotlin.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

And this is what I get in IntelliJ

[Nolan]

I don't have an answer, but I'm curious why you want to introduce Ktor client as a dependency instead of using Spring WebClient.

[Nolan]

Do you see the libraries when you run mvn dependency:list or mvn dependency:tree? If you do a type search in IntelliJ and select "All Projects", does the Ktor HttpClient show up there?

[Lucas León]

Actually I feel more comfortable using Ktor client, you can see the answer in the ktor channel, I posted the same question there