Receiving the body of a response

By default you can use HttpResponse or String as possible types for typed HttpClient requests. So for example:

val htmlContent = client.get<String>("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page")
val response = client.get<HttpResponse>("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page")

If JsonFeature is configured, and the server returns the header Content-Type: application/json, you can also specify a class for deserializing it.

val helloWorld = client.get<HelloWorld>("http://127.0.0.1:8080/")

The HttpResponse class

From an HttpResponse, you can get the response content easily:

• val readChannel: ByteReadChannel = response.content
• val bytes: ByteArray = response.readBytes()
• val text: String = response.readText()
• val readChannel = response.call.receive<ByteReadChannel>()
• val multiPart = response.call.receive<MultiPartData>()
• val inputStream = response.call.receive<InputStream>() Remember that InputStream API is synchronous!
• response.discardRemaining()

You can also get the additional response information such as its status, headers, internal state, etc.:

Basic:

• val status: HttpStatusCode = response.status
• val headers: Headers = response.headers

Advanced:

• val call: HttpClientCall = response.call
• val version: HttpProtocolVersion = response.version
• val requestTime: Date = response.requestTime
• val responseTime: Date = response.responseTime
• val executionContext: Job = response.executionContext

Extensions for headers:

• val contentType: ContentType? = response.contentType()
• val charset: Charset? = response.charset()
• val lastModified: Date? = response.lastModified()
• val etag: String? = response.etag()
• val expires: Date? = response.expires()
• val vary: List<String>? = response.vary()
• val contentLength: Int? = response.contentLength()
• val setCookie: List<Cookie> = response.setCookie()