How to retry HTTP requests with OkHttp/Retrofit?

Question

I am using Retrofit/OkHttp (1.6) in my Android project.

I don\'t find any request retry mechanism built-in to either of them. On searching more, I read OkHttp seems

Answer 1

A solution that worked for me on OkHttp 3.9.1 (considering other answers for this question):

@NonNull
@Override
public Response intercept(@NonNull Chain chain) throws IOException {
    Request  request      = chain.request();
    int      retriesCount = 0;
    Response response     = null;

    do {
        try {
            response = chain.proceed(request);

        // Retry if no internet connection.
        } catch (ConnectException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "intercept: ", e);
            retriesCount++;

            try {
                Thread.sleep(RETRY_TIME);

            } catch (InterruptedException e1) {
                Log.e(TAG, "intercept: ", e1);
            }
        }

    } while (response == null && retriesCount < MAX_RETRIES);

    // If there was no internet connection, then response will be null.
    // Need to initialize response anyway to avoid NullPointerException.
    if (response == null) {
        response = chain.proceed(newRequest);
    }

    return response;
}