Set dynamic base url using Retrofit 2.0 and Dagger 2

Support for this use-case was removed in Retrofit2. The recommendation is to use an OkHttp interceptor instead.

HostSelectionInterceptor made by swankjesse

import java.io.IOException;
import okhttp3.HttpUrl;
import okhttp3.Interceptor;
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;

/** An interceptor that allows runtime changes to the URL hostname. */
public final class HostSelectionInterceptor implements Interceptor {
  private volatile String host;

  public void setHost(String host) {
    this.host = host;
  }

  @Override public okhttp3.Response intercept(Chain chain) throws IOException {
    Request request = chain.request();
    String host = this.host;
    if (host != null) {
      //HttpUrl newUrl = request.url().newBuilder()
      //    .host(host)
      //    .build();
      HttpUrl newUrl = HttpUrl.parse(host);
      request = request.newBuilder()
          .url(newUrl)
          .build();
    }
    return chain.proceed(request);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    HostSelectionInterceptor interceptor = new HostSelectionInterceptor();

    OkHttpClient okHttpClient = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
        .addInterceptor(interceptor)
        .build();

    Request request = new Request.Builder()
        .url("http://www.coca-cola.com/robots.txt")
        .build();

    okhttp3.Call call1 = okHttpClient.newCall(request);
    okhttp3.Response response1 = call1.execute();
    System.out.println("RESPONSE FROM: " + response1.request().url());
    System.out.println(response1.body().string());

    interceptor.setHost("www.pepsi.com");

    okhttp3.Call call2 = okHttpClient.newCall(request);
    okhttp3.Response response2 = call2.execute();
    System.out.println("RESPONSE FROM: " + response2.request().url());
    System.out.println(response2.body().string());
  }
}

Or you can either replace your Retrofit instance (and possibly store the instance in a RetrofitHolder in which you can modify the instance itself, and provide the holder through Dagger)...

public class RetrofitHolder {
   Retrofit retrofit;

   //getter, setter
}

Or re-use your current Retrofit instance and hack the new URL in with reflection, because screw the rules. Retrofit has a baseUrl parameter which is private final, therefore you can access it only with reflection.

Field field = Retrofit.class.getDeclaredField("baseUrl");
field.setAccessible(true);
okhttp3.HttpUrl newHttpUrl = HttpUrl.parse(newUrl);
field.set(retrofit, newHttpUrl);

Retrofit2 library comes with a @Url annotation. You can override baseUrl like this:

API interface:

public interface UserService {  
    @GET
    public Call<ResponseBody> profilePicture(@Url String url);
}

And call the API like this:

Retrofit retrofit = Retrofit.Builder()  
    .baseUrl("https://your.api.url/");
    .build();

UserService service = retrofit.create(UserService.class);  
service.profilePicture("https://s3.amazon.com/profile-picture/path");

For more details refer to this link: https://futurestud.io/tutorials/retrofit-2-how-to-use-dynamic-urls-for-requests

This worked for me in Kotlin

class HostSelectionInterceptor: Interceptor {

    override fun intercept(chain: Interceptor.Chain): Response {

        var request = chain.request()

        val host: String = SharedPreferencesManager.getServeIpAddress()

        val newUrl = request.url().newBuilder()
            .host(host)
            .build()

        request = request.newBuilder()
            .url(newUrl)
            .build()

        return chain.proceed(request)
    }

}

Add the interceptor to OkHttpClient builder

val okHttpClient = OkHttpClient.Builder()
                .addInterceptor(HostSelectionInterceptor())
                .cache(null)
                .build()

This might be late but Retrofit allows you to use dynamic URLs while making the network call itself using @Url annotation. I am also using Dagger2 to inject the Retrofit instance in my repositories and this solution is working fine for me.

This will use the base url

provided by you while creating the instance of Retrofit.

@GET("/product/123")
fun fetchDataFromNetwork(): Call<Product>

This ignore the base url

and use the url you will be providing this call at run time.

@GET()
fun fetchDataFromNetwork(@Url url : String): Call<Product> //