The path can also contain parameters that match specific path segments and capture its value into parameters properties of an application call:
get("/user/{id}") { val id = call.parameters["id"] }
Let's look at the newsSources function:
/** * Get list of all news sources */ fun Route.newsSources() { get("/news-source") { val (_, _, result) = "https://newsapi.org/v1/sources".httpGet().responseString() call.respondText(result.get(), ContentType.Application.Json) } }
The function contains a GET request specified using the get function from Route. Inside the get function, we get call, which is an instance of ApplicationCall to handle requests and responses.
We send a GET request to the News API, fetch all the news sources or ...
