Kotlin Android Retrofit 2.6.0 with coroutines error handling

Question

I am using Retrofit 2.6.0 with coroutines for my web service call. I am getting the API response properly with all response codes (success & error cases). My Issue is when I

Answer 1

Well, that's what I do, just to reduce try-catch junk copypaste

Declare our API call methods like this

@GET("do/smth")
suspend fun doSomething(): SomeCustomResponse

In a separate file

suspend fun  handleRequest(requestFunc: suspend () -> T): kotlin.Result {
    return try {
        Result.success(requestFunc.invoke())
    } catch (he: HttpException) {
        Result.failure(he)
    }
}

Usage:

suspend fun doSmth(): kotlin.Result {
    return handleRequest { myApi.doSomething() }
}

HTTP codes are handled by Retrofit - it just throws an HttpException if responseCode is not 2xx. So what we should do is just catch this exception.

I know, it is not a perfect solution, but let's for Jake to invent something better)