retrofit 2 @path Vs @query

Question

I am new to retrofit 2 library.I read several articles to get started as a beginner and I managed to fetch XML data from my RESTful API without specifying parameters.In my metho

Answer 1

Consider this is the url:

www.app.net/api/searchtypes/862189/filters?Type=6&SearchText=School

Now this is the call:

@GET("/api/searchtypes/{Id}/filters")
Call<FilterResponse> getFilterList(
          @Path("Id") long customerId,
          @Query("Type") String responseType,
          @Query("SearchText") String searchText
);

So we have:

www.app.net/api/searchtypes/{Path}/filters?Type={Query}&SearchText={Query}

Things that come after the ? are usually queries.

Answer 2

@Path is used when you have url which has '/' dynamic value after a backword slash.Example "http://google.com/index.html/userid. So in this url /userid is dynamic so to access this url your request should be @Get("index.html/{userid}") Calldata(@Path("userid")int id);

@Query is used when you have a url which has '?' dynamic value after a question mark.Example "http://google.com/index.html?userid.So in this url ? userid is dynamic so to access this url your request should be @Get("index.html") Calldata(@Query("userid")int id);

Answer 3

Query is use for URL parameters and with @Query("password") the URL should be :

user/john?password=****

Path is use to replace item defined in your path, like

user/{username}

Answer 4

@Query

• This annotation represents any query key value pair to be sent along with the network request

@Path

• This annotation implies that the passed parameter will be swapped in the endpoint path

Answer 5

For example:

@GET("/user/{username}?type={admin}")

Here username is the path variable, and type is the query variable

@GET("/user/{username}?type={admin}")
void getUserOuth(@Path("username") String username, @Query("type") String type)

Answer 6

@Path annotation use for ordering parameters as your own way. And defined the order in url.

@GET("user/{username}/{password}")
Call<List<UserCredentail>> getUserOuth(@Path("username") String username, @Path("password") String password);

@Query annotation auto order of parameters and added with url including "?" symbol.

   @GET("user")
    Call<List<UserCredentail>> getUserOuth(@Query("username") String username, @Query("password") String password);