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API clients / Kotlin

Composition API client

The Composition API client is part of the algoliasearch-scala package. You can add this package to your build.gradle.kts file:

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implementation("com.algolia:algoliasearch-client-kotlin:3.23.0")
// You also need to add a KTOR engine as dependency, for example:
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-client-java:$ktor_version")

To use the Composition client, add this import to your files:

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import com.algolia.client.api.CompositionClient
import com.algolia.client.configuration.*
import com.algolia.client.transport.*
import com.algolia.client.model.composition.RequestBody

To create an instance of the client:

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val client = CompositionClient(appId = "ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID", apiKey = "ALGOLIA_API_KEY")

List of methods

Each method makes one request to the Composition API.

client.search Run a Composition
client.searchForFacetValues Search for facet values
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