Whats the recommended way to include an HttpLogging Interceptor? I dont want an explicit dependency ...

# apollo-kotlin

[André Thiele]

Whats the recommended way to include an HttpLogging Interceptor? I dont want an explicit dependency on the interceptor which messes with the other versions from Apollo itself? Thanks in advance

[mbonnin]

You can add HttpLoggingInterceptor as a dependency. The only reason we keep OkHttp 3.x as a dependency is to stay compatible with Android 14 but if you don't need that, you should be able to use the latest OkHttp

[André Thiele]

Alright thank you!

[André Thiele]

can i exclude okhttp3 from the dependency then?

[mbonnin]

Not sure what you mean. OkHttp3 (or 4) is needed by Apollo so it needs to be in the classpath

[André Thiele]

Yeah I mean if I include 4 on the class path, haven't seen 4 be default

[mbonnin]

4 should be compatible with 3 mainly

[mbonnin]

https://square.github.io/okhttp/upgrading_to_okhttp_4/

[André Thiele]

Ok thanks, works so far for me

[wasyl]

fyi we’re always on the most recent apollo + okhttp without issues (apollo 2.5.4 and okhttp 4.9.1 right now)

[André Thiele]

I see that 4 should be included, but it's not on my class path by default. Any idea why?

[wasyl]

Where do you see that it should be included? The POM for Apollo 2.5.4 specifies OkHttp 3.12.11 https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.apollographql.apollo/apollo-runtime/2.5.4/jar

[André Thiele]

https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android/blob/main/gradle/dependencies.gradle

[André Thiele]

at least its defined in the dependencies listed here

[wasyl]

I don’t know exactly how the library is published so I try to look at POMs directly instead of the sources. Either way if Martin says

The only reason we keep OkHttp 3.x as a dependency is to stay compatible with Android 14 but if you don’t need that, you should be able to use the latest OkHttp

then I wouldn’t argue that library depends on OkHttp 4, he would know better as a maintainer of Apollo 🙂

[mbonnin]

Yeaaa the Gradle setup of Apollo is a bit weird because we have a Gradle plugin and also integration tests that use the same dependencies. Long story short, we have 2 versions of OkHttp:
* apollo-runtime uses OkHttp3 to be compatible with as many devices as possible.
* apollo-gradle-plugin uses OkHttp4 because it runs on the dev machine and there's a lot less limitations (and we want to use the nice Kotlin syntax there)

[mbonnin]

Since everything is forward compatible, using 3 or 4 on Android should work the same as far as Apollo is concerned.