Using Retrofit With Cookie Persistence

I guys, I'm using retrofit and I wonder how to transparently handle the session cookie. For that I extend the given ApacheClient and use a CookieStore in the custom call to ApacheC

Solution 1:

Starting from API 9 you have java.net.CookieManager and can set system-wide cookie handler like this:

CookieManager cookieManager = new CookieManager();
cookieManager.setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ALL);
CookieHandler.setDefault(cookieManager);

Yes, Apache Http client uses its own cookie-handling mechanism. But it should not be the problem because starting from API 9 HttpURLConnection is recommended HTTP client. If you use Retrofit from Square you may also like their OkHttp lib - custom URLConnection implementation with lots of useful capabilities.