JSONDecodeError when requesting directions in gpx format about openrouteservice-py

[nilsnolde]

Raw requests will work (as in the playground). However, ors-py offers some level of abstraction and I'm fairly sure this won't be implemented any time soon (if ever), sorry. It's actually the first time this was raised in > 2 years, so (luckily) not a lot of people have a use case for GPX in Python.

Of course happy to review a PR if you wanna add it upstream. The gpxpy package could be an option, seems to be well maintained I wouldn't like the maintenance of GPX parsing in this repo.

[nilsnolde]

I just realized that the doc string for directions.directions mentions gpx. If you're not interested in a PR, I'll change that and throw an appropriate error when it's tried.

[kuznetsov-a]

Understood, if gpx is actually not supported, it should not be available as a format option

[nilsnolde]

Or it could just return the gpx response as plain text, so you can parse it in the client. I also maintain the routing-py package where we actually parse the JSON response, forgot for a moment that ors-py only gives the loaded JSON back anyways without parsing. So it could do the same for GPX, that's true. Would that be enough?

[kuznetsov-a]

Plain text response would be great, thanks. My use case for gpx is to save the route to a file that I can load into a navigation program. It would be great to be able to do it without resorting to raw api calls