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

As stated in the docs, a better might be to use the baked in authenticators, eg: private final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

  public void run() throws Exception {
    client.setAuthenticator(new Authenticator() {
      @Override public Request authenticate(Proxy proxy, Response response) {
        System.out.println("Authenticating for response: " + response);
        System.out.println("Challenges: " + response.challenges());
        String credential = Credentials.basic("jesse", "password1");
        return response.request().newBuilder()
            .header("Authorization", credential)
            .build();
      }

      @Override public Request authenticateProxy(Proxy proxy, Response response) {
        return null; // Null indicates no attempt to authenticate.
      }
    });

    Request request = new Request.Builder()
        .url("http://publicobject.com/secrets/hellosecret.txt")
        .build();

    Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
    if (!response.isSuccessful()) throw new IOException("Unexpected code " + response);

    System.out.println(response.body().string());
  }