I have a webservice that returns either a list of serialized MyPOJO objects:
[
{ //JSON MyPOJO },
{ //JSON MyPOJO }
]
either an error object :
{
'error': 'foo',
'message':'bar'
}
Using retrofit2, how can I retrieve the error ?
Call<List<MyPOJO>> request = ...
request.enqueue(new Callback<List<MyPOJO>>() {
@Override
public void onResponse(Response<List<MyPOJO>> response) {
if (response.isSuccess()) {
List<MyPOJO> myList = response.body();
// do something with the list...
} else {
// server responded with an error, here is how we are supposed to retrieve it
ErrorResponse error = ErrorResponse.fromResponseBody(apiService.getRetrofitInstance(), response.errorBody());
processError(error);
// but we never get there because GSON deserialization throws an error !
}
}
@Override
public void onFailure(Throwable t) {
if(t instanceof IOException){
// network error
}else if(t instanceof IllegalStateException){
// on server sending an error object we get there
// how can I retrieve the error object ?
}else {
// default error handling
}
}
}
Here is the GSON exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was BEGIN_OBJECT at line 1 column 2 path $
Retrofit instance is created using GsonConverterFactory
I had a similar issue and I solved it by using a generic Object
and then testing what type of response I had using instanceof
Call<Object> call = api.login(username, password);
call.enqueue(new Callback<Object>()
{
@Override
public void onResponse(Response<Object> response, Retrofit retrofit)
{
if (response.body() instanceof MyPOJO )
{
MyPOJO myObj = (MyPOJO) response.body();
//handle MyPOJO
}
else //must be error object
{
MyError myError = (MyError) response.body();
//handle error object
}
}
@Override
public void onFailure(Throwable t)
{
///Handle failure
}
});
In my case I had either MyPOJO or MyError returned and I could be sure it would be one of these.
In other cases then I had the backend return the same Response Object no matter if the request was successful or not.
Then inside this response object I had my actual data within an "Object" field. Then I can use instance of to determine what type of data I had. In this case I always had the same object being returned, no matter what the call was.
public class MyResponse {
private int responseCode;
private String command;
private int errorno;
private String errorMessage;
private Object responseObject; //This object varies depending on what command was called
private Date responseTime;
}
Call<LoginResponse> call = apiService.getUserLogin(usernametext, passwordtext);
call.enqueue(new Callback<LoginResponse>() {
@Override
public void onResponse(Call<LoginResponse> call, Response<LoginResponse> response) {
Log.e("responsedata","dd"+response.toString());
if (response.code()==200) {
showMessage(response.body().getMessage());
Intent intent = new Intent(LoginActivity.this, MainAct.class);
startActivity(intent);
}
else
try {
LoginError loginError= gson.fromJson(response.errorBody().string(),LoginError.class);
showMessage(loginError.getMessage());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
@Override
public void onFailure(Call<LoginResponse> call, Throwable t) {
}
});
}