Retrofit, callback for 204 No Content response?

ticofab picture ticofab · Jan 14, 2015 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

On Android, I initially implemented a Retrofit interface like this:

@DELETE(USER_API_BASE_URL + "/{id}")
public void deleteUser(@Path("id") String id, Callback<User> callback);

The server returns 204 NO CONTENT upon a successful deletion. This was causing the callback to trigger failure, with retrofit.RetrofitError: End of input at character 0 of, as it was expecting a User object back with the response.

I then rewrote it like this, using Void instead of User:

@DELETE(USER_API_BASE_URL + "/{id}")
public void deleteUser(@Path("id") String id, Callback<Void> callback);  <-- VOID

But I am getting the same error from the callback. What is the proper way to fix this? Thank you.

Answer

Will Vanderhoef picture Will Vanderhoef · Dec 4, 2015

Retrofit 2.x no longer has a ResponseCallback as mentioned in the other answer. You want to use a Response<Void> type.

The RxJava declaration:

@PUT Observable<Response<Void>> foo();

The standard declaration:

@PUT Call<Response<Void>> bar();