httpGet can't send body in request

I’m creating an android app using Fuel for kotlin and i need to send a GET request to the server with a body but got “Exception : method does not support a request body: GET”. How can I send a body with my GET request ?

I follow you my function:

fun getFunc (data: JSONObject, url : String): String {
    lateinit var ret : String

    thread {
        FuelManager.instance.basePath = "https://blih.epitech.eu"
        Fuel.upload(url, Method.GET)
            .source { _, _ -> File.createTempFile(".temp", ".tmp") }
            .body(data.toString().toByteArray())
            .header("Content-Type" to "application/json")
            .response { request, response, result ->
                val (bytes, error) = result
                if (bytes != null) {
                    println("[response bytes] ${String(bytes)}")
                }
                ret = response.toString()
                println("error: $error")
            }
    }
    Thread.sleep(1000)
    return ret
}

[wfxr]

Not allow to send body in GET request is a strange restriction. As @SleeplessByte said that unreasonable constraint was already dropped from the RFC. Meanwhile many famous projects’ apis take body in GET request (Elasticsearch for example).

GET /_search
{
  "query": {
    "multi_match": {
      "query": "this is a test",
      "fields": [
        "subject",
        "message"
      ]
    }
  }
}

So will fuel plan to remove the restriction? Otherwise we have to use POST method to get something when the query is complicated (hope luckily the server support both post and get).

[SleeplessByte]

Hi @emanuele-dedonatis . Unfortunately we’re still constraint by the underlying HTTP library.