Interface Call

retrofit/src/main/java/retrofit2/Call.java:35–81

An invocation of a Retrofit method that sends a request to a webserver and returns a response. Each call yields its own HTTP request and response pair. Use #clone to make multiple calls with the same parameters to the same webserver; this may be used to implement polling or to retry a failed

 * @param <T> Successful response body type.
 */
public interface Call<T> extends Cloneable {
  /**
   * Synchronously send the request and return its response.
   *
   * @throws IOException if a problem occurred talking to the server.
   * @throws RuntimeException (and subclasses) if an unexpected error occurs creating the request or
   *     decoding the response.
   */
  Response<T> execute() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Asynchronously send the request and notify {@code callback} of its response or if an error
   * occurred talking to the server, creating the request, or processing the response.
   */
  void enqueue(Callback<T> callback);

  /**
   * Returns true if this call has been either {@linkplain #execute() executed} or {@linkplain
   * #enqueue(Callback) enqueued}. It is an error to execute or enqueue a call more than once.
   */
  boolean isExecuted();

  /**
   * Cancel this call. An attempt will be made to cancel in-flight calls, and if the call has not
   * yet been executed it never will be.
   */
  void cancel();

  /** True if {@link #cancel()} was called. */
  boolean isCanceled();

  /**
   * Create a new, identical call to this one which can be enqueued or executed even if this call
   * has already been.
   */
  Call<T> clone();

  /** The original HTTP request. */
  Request request();

  /**
   * Returns a timeout that spans the entire call: resolving DNS, connecting, writing the request
   * body, server processing, and reading the response body. If the call requires redirects or
   * retries all must complete within one timeout period.
   */
  Timeout timeout();
}