AndroidServiceClient.setCookie throws exception

Clients Android
1

I have a token and I’m trying to set it on the AndroidServiceClient however it throws an exception pasted below. Is there a different way to handle this?

this.Client.setCookie("ss-tok", token);

The error occurs JsonServiceClient:

 public void setCookie(String name, String value, Long expiresInSecs) {
        CookieManager cookieManager = (CookieManager)CookieHandler.getDefault();
        HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(name, value);
        if (expiresInSecs != null) {
            cookie.setMaxAge(expiresInSecs);
        }
    // error occurs below
        cookieManager.getCookieStore().getCookies().add(cookie);
    }

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.test.program, PID: 22798
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
    at java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableCollection.add(Collections.java:1097)
    at net.servicestack.client.JsonServiceClient.setCookie(JsonServiceClient.java:568)
    at net.servicestack.client.JsonServiceClient.setCookie(JsonServiceClient.java:558)
    at com.beyond4.daytripperadmin.dto.Data.SetToken(Data.java:14)
    at com.beyond4.daytripperadmin.LoginFragment$LoginWebViewClient$1.onReceiveValue(LoginFragment.java:155)
    at com.beyond4.daytripperadmin.LoginFragment$LoginWebViewClient$1.onReceiveValue(LoginFragment.java:150)
    at uf.onResult(Unknown Source:2)
    at org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.a(PG:906)
    at aeG.run(Unknown Source:4)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:873)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
2

Where are you initiating the AndroidServiceClient? This answer suggests you can try initializing it in onCreate():

CookieHandler.setDefault(new CookieManager());
3

I moved it into the activity’s onCreate which uses a singleton class and creates the client. Then later when I get the token I try to set it and it fails. I’ve tried your code as well and it still fails… I’ll keep researching.

4

By no means am I anything more than a beginner on Android development so take this with a grain of salt. I’m testing on SDK 28:

  • cookieManager.getCookieStore().getCookies().add(cookie) throws an error.

  • URI u = URI.create("https://theurl.com"); cookieManager.getCookieStore().add(null, cookie); seems to add the cookie HOWEVER every call to an authenticated service throws the following error: the input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters.

  • The only way I could get an authenticated service to work with a token was to use a RequestFilter and set the Authorization Token via a header like this:

      Client.RequestFilter = new ConnectionFilter() {
          @Override
          public void exec(HttpURLConnection conn) {
              conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer " + theToken);
          }
      };

You may want to test a simple authenticated service (with a token) and try to set a cookie with the current implementation of AndroidServiceClient.

5

The issue with local cookies should be resolved from v1.0.41.

I’ve also added support for setBearerToken() to be able to configure the Service Client with an Authorization Bearer {Token} HTTP Request Header and the setTokenCookie() typed API which wraps setCookie("ss-tok",...).

There’s also an overload for the AndroidServiceClient which lets you specify an android Context that you can use with:

AndroidServiceClient client = new AndroidServiceClient(baseUrl, getContext());

Which will persist cookies into the App’s SharedPreferences.

6

As always your support is excellent.

Since you probably only get mostly bugs and negative stuff here, I should say that it literally took me 5 minutes (on my second ever Android app test) to get an Android service stack client up and showing a list of items (non authenticated service). 99.9% of my time has been dedicated to learning the Android bits so a big kudos to Service Stack for making it so easy.

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7

Where can I download this? It isn’t listed on the plugin site, under beta nor nightly?

8

It’s the ServiceStack.Android’s package dependency:

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation 'net.servicestack:android:1.0.41'
}

net.servicestack:android:1.0.41 should be available

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