How to increase timeout for retrofit requests in robospice android?

Question

I have implemented robospice in my project and using retrofit for all api calls. For some of requests, I need to increase timeout, please let me know how can I do that?

Answer 1

I don't know about robospice but with retrofit 2+ and okhttp3+ you should set a new client like this.

OkHttpClient okHttpClient = new OkHttpClient();
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl(Constantes.URL_DOMAIN)
            .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
            .client(okHttpClient.newBuilder().connectTimeout(Constantes.TIMEOUT, TimeUnit.SECONDS).readTimeout(Constantes.TIMEOUT, TimeUnit.SECONDS).writeTimeout(Constantes.TIMEOUT, TimeUnit.SECONDS).build())
            .build();

import this in your module build.gradle:

compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.0.0-beta3'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.0.0-beta3'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.0.0-RC1'

Answer 2

I stumbled in here with a similar question and eventually found the answer elsewhere. Had there been a more complete example here, I would have saved some time so I circled back to post what worked for me just in case it helps others:

Adapter with increased read timeout

    // create client
    OkHttpClient okHttpClient = new OkHttpClient();
    okHttpClient.setReadTimeout(60 * 1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

    // create rest adapter using the client above
    RestAdapter restAdapter = new RestAdapter.Builder()
            .setEndpoint(getBaseApiUrl())
            .setClient(new OkClient(okHttpClient))
            // this gson converter below is optional. We use it for parsing dates and enums
            .setConverter(new GsonConverter(createApiGson()))
            .setLogLevel(getRetrofitLogLevel())
            .build();

NOTE: for us, getBaseApiUrl() returns something like: https://some.company.com/api/
and getRetrofitLogLevel() returns either RestAdapter.LogLevel.FULL or RestAdapter.LogLevel.NONE depending on which flavor of the app is built.

Lastly, these are the main dependencies that make everything work:

Key dependencies

dependencies {
    ...
    compile "com.squareup.retrofit:retrofit:1.5.0"
    compile "com.squareup.retrofit:retrofit-mock:1.5.0"
    compile "com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:1.5.4"
    compile "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.4"
    ...
}

Answer 3

In your RetrofitSpiceService extending service, you'll need to override createRestAdapterBuilder().

 @Override
 protected Builder createRestAdapterBuilder() {
    Builder builder = super.createRestAdapterBuilder();
    builder.setClient(new CustomClient());
    return builder;
  }

CustomClient is the class that you need to write yourself to supply your own timeouts. If you're using OkHttp, take a look at the default OkClient for reference: https://github.com/square/retrofit/blob/43b7ea14e5aca1d710deccb95b79484b03e99bb9/retrofit/src/main/java/retrofit/client/OkClient.java