Dagger + Retrofit dynamic URL

Question

PROBLEM

I need to call API from domains entered by USER and I need to edit my Retrofit singleton before the call accordingly to the inserted data.

Is there a way to "reset" my singleton, forcing it to recreate?

or

Is there a way to update my baseUrl with my data (maybe in Interceptor?) just before call?

CODE

Singletons

@Provides
@Singleton
Retrofit provideRetrofit(SharedPreferences prefs) {

    String apiUrl = "https://%1s%2s";
    apiUrl = String.format(apiUrl, prefs.getString(ACCOUNT_SUBDOMAIN, null), prefs.getString(ACCOUNT_DOMAIN, null));

    OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
            .addInterceptor(new HeaderInterceptor())
            .build();

    return new Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl(apiUrl)
            .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
            .client(httpClient)
            .addCallAdapterFactory(RxJavaCallAdapterFactory.create())
            .build();
}

@Provides
@Singleton
API provideAPI(Retrofit retrofit) {
    return retrofit.create(API.class);
}

API

@FormUrlEncoded
@POST("endpoint")
Observable<Response> logIn(@Field("login") String login, @Field("password") String password);

How it works now

Well the idea was to save user domain data via SharedPrefs before API call and modify baseUrl with formatted String.

Answer 1

I see 2 options here:

• Use dagger as it is intended. Create for every baseUrl their own Retrofit client, or
• Use an interceptor to modify the request before sending it

Dagger approach

If you were to brute force urls, this would probably not be the right choice, since it relies on creating a new Retrofit instance for each.

Now every time the url changes, you just recreate the following demonstrated UrlComponent by supplying it with a new UrlModule.

Clean up

Clean your @Singleton module, so that it provides GsonConverterFactory, and RxJavaCallAdapterFactory to make proper use of dagger and not recreate shared objects.

@Module
public class SingletonModule {

  @Provides
  @Singleton
  GsonConverterFactory provideOkHttpClient() {/**/}

  @Provides
  @Singleton
  RxJavaCallAdapterFactory provideOkHttpClient() {/**/}
}


@Singleton
@Component(modules = SingletonModule.class)
interface SingletonComponent {

    // sub component
    UrlComponent plus(UrlModule component);
}

Url Scoped

Introduce a @UrlScope to scope your Retrofit instances.

@Scope
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface UrlScope {
}

Then create a subcomponent

@SubComponent(modules=UrlModule.class)
public interface UrlComponent {}

And a module for it

@Module
class UrlModule {

    private final String mUrl;

    UrlModule(String url) { mUrl = url; }

    @Provides
    String provideUrl() {
        return mUrl;
    }

    @Provides
    @UrlScope
    OkHttpClient provideOkHttpClient(String url) {
        return new OkHttpClient.Builder().build();
    }

    @Provides
    @UrlScope
    Retrofit provideRetrofit(OkHttpClient client) {
        return new Retrofit.Builder().build();
    }

}

Use scoped Retrofit

Instantiate the component and use it.

class Dagger {

    public void demo() {
        UrlModule module = new UrlModule(/*some url*/);
        SingletonComponent singletonComponent = DaggerSingletonComponent.create();
        UrlComponent urlComponent = singletonComponent.plus(module);

        urlComponent.getRetrofit(); // done.
    }
}

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OkHttp approach

Provide a properly scoped interceptor (@Singleton in this case) and implement the corresponding logic.

@Module
class SingletonModule {

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    GsonConverterFactory provideGsonConverter() { /**/ }

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    RxJavaCallAdapterFactory provideRxJavaCallAdapter() { /**/ }

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    MyApiInterceptor provideMyApiInterceptor() { /**/ }

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    OkHttpClient provideOkHttpClient(MyApiInterceptor interceptor) {
        return new OkHttpClient.Builder().build();
    }

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    Retrofit provideRetrofit(OkHttpClient client) {
        return new Retrofit.Builder().build();
    }
}

@Singleton
@Component(modules = SingletonModule.class)
interface SingletonComponent {

    Retrofit getRetrofit();

    MyApiInterceptor getInterceptor();
}

todo Implement the MyApiInterceptor. You will need to have a setter for the base url, and then just rewrite / modify the requests coming through.

Then, again, just go ahead and use it.

class Dagger {

    public void demo() {
        SingletonComponent singletonComponent = DaggerSingletonComponent.create();
        MyService service = singletonComponent.getRetrofit().create(MyService.class);
        MyApiInterceptor interceptor = singletonComponent.getInterceptor();

        interceptor.setBaseUrl(myUrlA);
        service.doA();
        interceptor.setBaseUrl(someOtherUrl);
        service.doB();
    }
}

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As a third approach, you could also use reflection to just directly change base the base URL—I added this last just for completeness.

Answer 2

You can implement BaseUrl and pass that instead of a fixed URL.check out this link Other approach is implementing Endpoint and make use of setUrl().So for changing some header value at run time then you can use interceptor and add it to OkHttp.