Wrong 404 when post data is wrong. Should be 400

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, for me it seems that nothing is different from the kweet sample post on login, but when my app configured like this:

@location("/api/accounts")
class PostAccountRequest

fun Route.createAccount() {
    post<PostAccountRequest> {
        call.respondText("Are you trying to create an account?")
    }
}

it works:

$ curl -X POST localhost:8080/api/accounts -d '{"name":"thales","lastName":"machado"}'
Are you trying to create an account?

But when adding data to PostAccountRequest it starts giving me 404:

@location("/api/accounts")
data class PostAccountRequest(val name: String = "", val lastName: String = "")

fun Route.createAccount() {
    post<PostAccountRequest> {
        call.respondText("Are you trying to create an account?")
    }
}

The response:

$ curl -X POST localhost:8080/api/accounts -d '{"name":"thales","lastName":"machado"}'
<H1>404 Not Found</H1><P>Cannot find resource with the requested URI: /api/accounts</P>

Can someone help me on what I’m doing wrong here?

[orangy]

Locations are strongly typed hrefs, if you wish. See some examples like https://github.com/Kotlin/ktor/blob/master/ktor-samples/you-kube/src/you/kube/Videos.kt#L39

I need to write a ktor.io article on this…

[thalescm]

Ok, thanks for clearing it out!