Suggestion: Request context information

I’d like to add the ability of a Request or maybe Call to carry some additional contextual information. I’m curious if this has been considered before. Or any thoughts for how to approach this, e.g. an immutable Map on Request.

I’m bastardising request.tag in my own project to carry an optional auth token or “pointer”.

https://github.com/yschimke/oksocial/blob/6b8025dc3a53623e3b49d041ef36037961ae0c23/src/main/kotlin/com/baulsupp/oksocial/credentials/TokenSet.kt

sealed class Token {
  open fun name(): String? = null
}

val DefaultToken = TokenSet("default")

data class TokenSet(val name: String) : Token() {
  override fun name(): String? = name
}

data class TokenValue(val token: Any) : Token()

object NoToken : Token()

Used to override the auth token that a preregistered authenticator should use e.g. None, Default, “Work”, “Accounts”, “Personal”, or even a programmatically provided one.

e.g.

    val response = client.query<Oauth2TokenResponse>(request("https://connect.squareup.com/oauth2/token", NoToken) {
      postJsonBody(AuthDetails(clientId, clientSecret, code, s.redirectUri))
    })

This works, but I’m fighting the OkHttp library to do it. It is terrible example code I can’t show anybody.

[swankjesse]

We dropped it! https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/2205

[yschimke]

I’ll update the comments.