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Routing Requests

Explore how to set up routing blocks in Ktor microservices for handling URL requests. Understand how to respond with text and JSON by integrating the kotlinx-serialization library. Learn to configure ContentNegotiation to return serialized JSON objects and run your Ktor application with properly routed endpoints.

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Handling URLs with the routing block

Now, let’s take a look at the routing block:

routing {
    get("/") {
       call.respondText("OK")
    }
}

This block describes all the URLs that will be handled by our server. In this case, we only handle the root URL. When that URL is requested, a text response, OK, will be returned to the user.

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