Set custom cookie in Retrofit

Question

Is there a way to set a custom cookie on retrofit requests?

Either by using the RequestInterceptor or any other means?

Answer 1

I've only just started with RetroFit, but the way it handles cookies does not seem to be on par with the rest of the library. I wound up doing something like this:

// Set up system-wide CookieHandler to capture all cookies sent from server.
final CookieManager cookieManager = new CookieManager();
cookieManager.setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ALL);
CookieHandler.setDefault(cookieManager);

// Set up interceptor to include cookie value in the header.
RequestInterceptor interceptor = new RequestInterceptor() {
  @Override
  public void intercept(RequestFacade request) {
    for (HttpCookie cookie : cookieManager.getCookieStore().getCookies()) {
      // Set up expiration in format desired by cookies
      // (arbitrarily one hour from now).
      Date expiration = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() + 60 * 60 * 1000);
      String expires = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz")
          .format(expiration);

      String cookieValue = cookie.getName() + "=" + cookie.getValue() + "; " +
          "path=" + cookie.getPath() + "; " +
          "domain=" + cookie.getDomain() + ";" +
          "expires=" + expires;

      request.addHeader("Cookie", cookieValue);
    }
  }
};

RestAdapter restAdapter = new RestAdapter.Builder()
    .setEndpoint("https://api.github.com")
    .setRequestInterceptor(interceptor) // Set the interceptor
    .build();

GitHubService service = restAdapter.create(GitHubService.class);