Ktor vs http4k
My exploration of JetBrains’ HTTP library concludes today with a comparison of the same functionality implemented with Ktor (https://ktor.io/) and http4k (https://http4k.org)
That’s it really. Please watch it to the end and let me know in the comments if you agree with my conclusions.
In this episode
00:00:00 Review
00:02:28 Create a function to create the routes
00:03:35 IntelliJ refactoring internal error
00:04:23 Bind our first handler to GET /customer
00:06:32 http4k JSON support
00:08:16 Bind a handler to GET /customer/{id}
00:10:17 Some trouble binding to a path with no id
00:12:00 Fudge that
00:12:38 A handler for delete by ID
00:14:55 Another route matching differences between Ktor and http4k
00:16:05 Finally a POST for adding a customer
00:18:53 Finally another error case, this time we need to catch
00:20:47 Check the tests
00:21:12 Compare and contrast our two app versions
This video is in a playlist of Ktor episodes ( • Ktor ) and http4k ( • http4k )
If you like this, you’ll probably like my book Java to Kotlin, A Refactoring Guidebook (http://java-to-kotlin.dev). It's about far more than just the syntax differences between the languages - it shows how to upgrade your thinking to a more functional style.