Authorize a whole service and anonymous methods support

[juanpmarin]

Hi, great library !

I think that would be useful if I could annotate a service as authorized and mark the unauthorized methods as anonymous, It would be possible ?

Thanks

[andretietz]

I thought about this too, but decided against it. Because you could have one endpoint using different tokens (usertoken, admintoken i.e.). If you would put it on the interface itself, this wouldn't work anymore.

What you can do to simplify your code is:

Implement your own TokenTypeFactory:

MyTokenFactory implements TokenTypeFactory<AndroidTokenType>

and use it in your own implementation of the AuthenticationHandler (pretty simple to implement, see: AndroidAuthenticationHandler)

This way you can tell your TokenTypeFactory what types to use and forget about them in the annotations.

so you can use them like this:

interface Foo {
    @Authenticated
    @GET(...)
    Call<Response> someCall();
}