How to implement cookie handling on Android using OkHttp?

Question

Using OkHttp by Square https://github.com/square/okhttp, how can I:

1. Retrieve a cookie returned from the server
2. Store the cookie for upcoming requests
3. Use the stored cookie in subsequent requests
4. Update the cookie returned by the subsequent request

Ideally the cookie would be stored, resent and updated automatically with every request.

Answer 1

For OkHttp3, a simple accept-all, non-persistent CookieJar implementation can be as follows:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
    .cookieJar(new CookieJar() {
        private final HashMap<HttpUrl, List<Cookie>> cookieStore = new HashMap<>();

        @Override
        public void saveFromResponse(HttpUrl url, List<Cookie> cookies) {
            cookieStore.put(url, cookies);
        }

        @Override
        public List<Cookie> loadForRequest(HttpUrl url) {
            List<Cookie> cookies = cookieStore.get(url);
            return cookies != null ? cookies : new ArrayList<Cookie>();
        }
    })
    .build();

Or if you prefer to use java.net.CookieManager, include okhttp-urlconnection in your project, which contains JavaNetCookieJar, a wrapper class that delegates to java.net.CookieHandler:

dependencies {
    compile "com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.0.0"
    compile "com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-urlconnection:3.0.0"
}

---

CookieManager cookieManager = new CookieManager();
cookieManager.setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ALL);
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
    .cookieJar(new JavaNetCookieJar(cookieManager))
    .build();