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android-async-http v1.4.5 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-06-22 // almost 10 years ago

  • Complete list of commits included is here https://github.com/loopj/android-async-http/commits/1.4.5
    List of closed issues is here https://github.com/loopj/android-async-http/issues?milestone=2&state=closed

    • Support for circular and relative redirects
    • Added support for SAX parsing, see SaxAsyncHttpResponseHandler
    • Fixed Threading issue when used in Service or non-UI Thread context
    • Fixed GZIPInputStream issue when running in StrictMode
    • Removed unnecessary (ambiguous) callback methods (were deprecated in 1.4.4)
    • Added JsonStreamerEntity to allow up streaming JSON data
    • Added possibility to modify blacklisted/whitelisted exceptions (see RetryHandler)
    • Using newCachedThreadPool() as default ExecutorService in library, with option to change it via main interface
    • Added ResponseHandlerInterface to support completely custom implementations of response handlers
    • Added onProgress(int,int) callback, which is used for upstream progress logging (eg. Progressbar dialogs)
    • Fixed "division by zero" in default response handler
    • Added DataAsyncHttpResponseHandler, which has extra callback method which receives partially received data
    • Fixed problem with uploading more than 2 files (changes in SimpleMultipartEntity)
    • Fixed problem where on GarbageCollectors activity there was no callback received
    • Added warning for cases, where headers overwrite each other (between common headers and per-request headers)
    • Safely closing IO streams (both upstream and downstream)
    • Fixed PersistentCookieStore issue, where non-persistent cookies were stored and added option to delete stored cookie
    • Fixed networkOnMainThreadException when canceling requests (AsyncHttpClient#cancel(boolean))
    • Removed default User-Agent definition from library
    • Fixed handling null URLs in default interface calls
    • Allowed to subclass AsyncHttpClient and simply provide custom AsyncHttpRequest object (AsyncHttpClient#newAsyncHttpRequest)
    • Changed project structure to be default Intellij IDEA structure (eg. library/src/main/java)
    • Catching UnsupportedEncodingException default Async and Text response handlers
    • Added strict Lint checking for both Library and Sample application
    • Added example implementations in Sample application
      • Requests threading (ThreadPool usage, 6 seconds delay on response)
      • Synchronous request (from Activity and IntentService)
      • SAX Parsing the response
      • Retry request sample
      • Handling 302 redirects
      • RangeResponse (working with partially received data)
      • Basic usage of GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
      • JSON response parsing
      • GZIP compressed communication
      • Binary handler (receives byte[] without parsing/converting)
      • File response handler (saving response directly into given File)
      • Self-signed CA sample (how to pin SSL certificate or add custom trust-chain for requests)
      • Persistent cookies store (persisting cookies between requests)
      • Post multi-part encoded Files (SimpleMultipartEntity)
      • Jackson JSON integration