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Call interface- Android

The Call interface represents a request that is prepared for processing.

Possible processing options include:

  • cancel
  • enqueue
  • execute
  • map

A call object cannot be processed twice.

NameTypeDescription
requestRequestOriginal request that initiated this call.

Parent Topic:Mobile SDK - Android

Call - cancel()

Cancels the associated call, if possible (best effort.)

NameTypeDescription
None  
TypeDescription
None 

The following code example shows how to call this function.

private var inFlightDataRequestCall: Call<*>? = null 
fun cancelTransfer() = inFlightDataRequestCall?.cancel() 

Call - enqueue(onSuccess: Consumer<Response<T>>, onError: Consumer<NowDataError>)

Schedules the request to be executed as soon as the system\thread is available to execute this request.

NameTypeDescription
onSuccessConsumer​<Response<T>>Callback to execute if the call is successful. HTTP response with the body parsed to the data type specified by the T parameter. Note: Consumer is a OOB Java type for asynchronous consumption of an object. In this case, the call uses generic to return a type Response<T> where T is the object type.
onErrorConsumer​<NowDataError>Callback to execute if the call fails.NowDataError
TypeDescription
None 

The following code example shows how to call this function.

fun makeGraphQLRequest(query: String) { 
  val call = graphQLService.graphQLRequest(query) 
  call.enqueue( 
    { response -> handleResponse(response) }, 
    { nowDataError -> handleError(nowDataError) } 
  ) 
} 

Call - execute()

Invokes the request immediately. Blocks until the response is processed or is in error.

NameTypeDescription
None  
TypeDescription
Response<T>Response data in the format defined in the T parameter.

The following code example shows how to call this function.

val response = apiService.data(NowAPIService.Endpoint( 
  relativePath = CASES_API, 
  requestMethod = HttpMethod.GET, 
  requireAuth = true) 
).execute()