Dagger + Retrofit. Adding auth headers at runtime

Question

I'm wondering if there is a way for Dagger to know that it should recreate an object when new data is available.

The instance I am speaking of is with the request headers I have for retrofit. At some point (when the user logs in) I get a token that I need to add to the headers of retrofit to make authenticated requests. The issue is, I'm left with the same unauthenticated version of retrofit. Here's my injection code:

@Provides
    @Singleton
    OkHttpClient provideOkHttpClient(Cache cache) {
        HttpLoggingInterceptor interceptor = new HttpLoggingInterceptor();
        interceptor.setLevel(HttpLoggingInterceptor.Level.BODY);
        OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                .addInterceptor(interceptor)
                .cache(cache).build();
         client
                .newBuilder()
                .addInterceptor(
                    chain -> {
                        Request original = chain.request();
                        Request.Builder requestBuilder = original.newBuilder()
                                .addHeader("Accept", "Application/JSON");
                        Request request = requestBuilder.build();
                        return chain.proceed(request);
                    }).build();
        return client;
    }

  @Provides
    @Singleton
    Retrofit provideRetrofit(Gson gson, OkHttpClient okHttpClient) { 
        Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
                .addCallAdapterFactory(RxErrorHandlingCallAdapterFactory.create())
                .baseUrl(mBaseUrl)
                .client(okHttpClient)
                .build();
        return retrofit;
}

@Provides
    @Singleton
    public NetworkService providesNetworkService(Retrofit retrofit) {
        return retrofit.create(NetworkService.class);
    }

Any ideas on how to make this work?

Answer 1

I personally created an okhttp3.Interceptor that does that for me, which I update once I have the required token. It looks something like:

@Singleton
public class MyServiceInterceptor implements Interceptor {
  private String sessionToken;

  @Inject public MyServiceInterceptor() {
  }

  public void setSessionToken(String sessionToken) {
    this.sessionToken = sessionToken;
  }

  @Override public Response intercept(Chain chain) throws IOException {
    Request request = chain.request();

    Request.Builder requestBuilder = request.newBuilder();

    if (request.header(NO_AUTH_HEADER_KEY) == null) {
      // needs credentials
      if (sessionToken == null) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Session token should be defined for auth apis");
      } else {
        requestBuilder.addHeader("Cookie", sessionToken);
      }
    }

    return chain.proceed(requestBuilder.build());
  }
}

In the corresponding dagger component, I expose this interceptor so I can set the sessionToken when I need to.

That is some stuff that Jake talked about it his talk Making Retrofit Work For You.