Is there a way to create a Url relative to another Url? I have a URL: <http://www.somedomain.com/pag...

# ktor

[steamstreet]

Is there a way to create a Url relative to another Url? I have a URL: http://www.somedomain.com/page and another relative path: /someotherpage but short of dissecting the URLs, there doesn’t seem to be a way to create one like there is in the JDK: URL(URL("<http://www.somedomain.com/page>"), "/someotherpage")

[Shubham Singh]

Have you tried the BASE_URL strategy?
I.e. set up constants in your codebase for different URLs, e.g.:

const val BASE_URL = "<http://www.somedomain.com>"
const val PAGE_URL = "$BASE_URL/page"
const val SOME_OTHER_PAGE_URL = "$BASE_URL/someotherpage"

[steamstreet]

I'm parsing html, so I need to support generic urls

[Shubham Singh]

Could we do something similar in that case as well?
i.e.

val BASE_URL = fetchedUrl.substringBefore("/")
val PAGE_URL = BASE_URL + "/page"

And so on?

[steamstreet]

Yes, but at that point I'm just going to use the built in jvm classes. Just would prefer to use the cross platform ktor stuff. Seems like it's not supported

[Shubham Singh]

I'm not sure, maybe it is supported, these were just my 2 cents. Maybe someone more experienced should be able to help 👍

[Rustam Siniukov]

UrlBuilder(baseUrl).takeFrom(relativeUrl) should do the trick