Can I do a synchronous request with volley?

Question

Imagine I\'m in a Service that already has a background thread. Can I do a request using volley in that same thread, so that callbacks happen synchronously?

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Answer 1

You can do sync request with volley but you must call the method in different thread or your running app will block, it should be like this :

public String syncCall(){

    String URL = "http://192.168.1.35:8092/rest";
    String response = new String();



    RequestQueue requestQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this.getContext());

    RequestFuture<JSONObject> future = RequestFuture.newFuture();
    JsonObjectRequest request = new JsonObjectRequest(Request.Method.GET, URL, new JSONObject(), future, future);
    requestQueue.add(request);

    try {
        response = future.get().toString();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ExecutionException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return response;


}

after that you can call the method in thread :

 Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
                                    @Override
                                    public void run() {

                                        String response = syncCall();

                                    }
                                });
                                thread.start();

Answer 2

It looks like it is possible with Volley's RequestFuture class. For example, to create a synchronous JSON HTTP GET request, you can do the following:

RequestFuture<JSONObject> future = RequestFuture.newFuture();
JsonObjectRequest request = new JsonObjectRequest(URL, new JSONObject(), future, future);
requestQueue.add(request);

try {
  JSONObject response = future.get(); // this will block
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
  // exception handling
} catch (ExecutionException e) {
  // exception handling
}