The Android Arsenal - Networking

Smash is Volley inspired networking library that's using OkHttp in its core.

Usage

Add Smash library to your project build.gradle

dependencies
{
    compile 'pl.appformation:smash:0.3.0'
}

Instantiate one shared SmashQueue object (e.g. in your Application class):

mSmashQueue = Smash.buildSmashQueue(getApplicationContext());

To request content of server as String do following:

String url = "https://github.com/appformation/smash";
SmashStringRequest request = new SmashStringRequest(SmashRequest.Method.GET, url,
        new SmashResponse.SuccessListener<String>()
        {
            public void onResponse(String response)
            {
                handleMyNiftyResponse(response);
            }
        }, new SmashResponse.FailedListener()
        {
            public void onFailedResponse(SmashError error)
            {
                showImpendingDoomError(error);
            }
        });

Request object looks definitely cooler with Retrolambda library:

SmashStringRequest request = new SmashStringRequest(SmashRequest.Method.GET, url,
    this::handleNiftyResponse, this::showImpendingDoomError);

Constructed request this way we now need to add to our SmashQueue:

mSmashQueue.add(request);

Adding custom headers to request:

SmashStringRequest request = ...
request.setHeaders(Headers.of("CustomHeader", "Value",
                              "AnotherHeader", "AnotherValue"));

Why another library?

Some of us like Volley library, it's easy to use and has superb extensibility with Request class, but recent removal of HttpClient in Marshmalow made library obsolete. We also don't like reactive programming. With this in mind came idea to rewrite Volley to use directly all of the internals of OkIo and OkHttp libraries.

What's different than in Volley

URL address can be modified, up to the point of reaching dispatcher queue
Source class from OkIo is used instead of InputStream
Ability to modify User-Agent field globally for all requests
Both listeners are obligatory in request constructor
To prevent class names conflicting with OkHttp all smash classes have Smash prefix

Things to do

Retry policy (for now default from OkHttp is used)
Authentication mechanism in requests
Moshi support (thanks to OkIo we can use Source class with Moshi)
Support for multipart/form-data upload
... and last but not least, unit tests

Changelog

Current version is 0.3.0

Dependencies of version 0.3.0

com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp 3.5.0
com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-urlconnection 3.5.0
com.android.support:support-annotations 25.1.0

License

Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Appformation Sp. z o.o.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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