DoubleReceive

The DoubleReceive plugin provides the ability to receive a request body several times with no RequestAlreadyConsumedException exception. This might be useful if a plugin is already consumed a request body, so you cannot receive it inside a route handler. For example, you can use DoubleReceive to log a request body using the CallLogging plugin and then receive a body one more time inside the post route handler.

Add dependencies

To use DoubleReceive, you need to include the ktor-server-double-receive artifact in the build script:

implementation("io.ktor:ktor-server-double-receive:$ktor_version")

implementation "io.ktor:ktor-server-double-receive:$ktor_version"

        
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>io.ktor</groupId>
                        <artifactId>ktor-server-double-receive-jvm</artifactId>
                        <version>${ktor_version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                    
        

Install DoubleReceive

To install the DoubleReceive plugin to the application, pass it to the install function in the specified module. The code snippets below show how to install DoubleReceive...

... inside the embeddedServer function call.
... inside the explicitly defined module, which is an extension function of the Application class.

                    import io.ktor.server.engine.*
                    import io.ktor.server.netty.*
                    import io.ktor.server.application.*
                    import io.ktor.server.plugins.doublereceive.*

                    fun main() {
                        embeddedServer(Netty, port = 8080) {
                            install(DoubleReceive)
                            // ...
                        }.start(wait = true)
                    }
                

                    import io.ktor.server.application.*
                    import io.ktor.server.plugins.doublereceive.*
                    // ...
                    fun Application.module() {
                        install(DoubleReceive)
                        // ...
                    }
                

The DoubleReceive plugin can also be installed to specific routes. This might be useful if you need different DoubleReceive configurations for different application resources.

After installing DoubleReceive, you can receive a request body several times and every invocation returns the same instance. For example, you can enable logging of a request body using the CallLogging plugin...

    install(CallLogging) {
        level = Level.TRACE
        format { call ->
            runBlocking {
                "Body: ${call.receiveText()}"
            }
        }
    }

... and then get a request body one more time inside a route handler.

        post("/") {
            val receivedText = call.receiveText()
            call.respondText("Text '$receivedText' is received")
        }

You can find the full example here: double-receive.

Configure DoubleReceive

With the default configuration, DoubleReceive provides the ability to receive a request body as the following types:

ByteArray
String
Parameters
data classes used by the ContentNegotiation plugin

By default, DoubleReceive doesn't support:

receiving different types from the same request;
receiving a stream or channel.

Set the cacheRawRequest property to false, if you do not need to receive different types from the same request or receive a stream or channel:

install(DoubleReceive) {
    cacheRawRequest = false
}

20 October 2025