How to use Call Type with EventBus

Question

I am using EventBus to notify Activity/Fragment when I get response from the server. Everything works good so far, but problem arises when I consume two network calls in same Fragment or Activity. The problem is the same method onEvent(String response) get calls for both responses from server. The response of call 1 is different from call 2.

I came up with a solution - I added CallType in NetworkReqest but I can't notify the activity/fragment about the network call since post() takes only one parameter.

Here is the relevant code -

public class NetworkRequest {
    EventBus eventBus = EventBus.getDefault();

    public void stringParamRequest(String url, final Map<String, String> params,String callType) {
        StringRequest jsonObjRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST, url,
                new Response.Listener<String>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onResponse(String response) {
                        eventBus.post(response);
                    }
                }, new Response.ErrorListener() {

            @Override
            public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                VolleyLog.d("volley", "Error: " + error.getMessage());
                eventBus.post(error);
            }
        }) {

            @Override
            public String getBodyContentType() {
                return "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8";
            }

            @Override
            protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {
                Map<String, String> param = params;
                return param;
            }

        };
        SkillSchoolApplication.get().addToRequestQueue(jsonObjRequest);
    }

    public void stringRequest(String url, String callType) {
        StringRequest stringRequest = new StringRequest(url, new Response.Listener<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(String response) {
                eventBus.post(response);
            }
        }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {

            }
        });
        SkillSchoolApplication.get().addToRequestQueue(stringRequest);
    }


}

Method Inside the fragment/activity Here arise the problem when after getting the response from one request i fire another request which is dependent of the respose of the first request

@Subscribe(threadMode = ThreadMode.MAIN)
    public void onEvent(String response) {
        Log.d(TAG, response);
        boolean isCourseAvaible = false;
        if (!isCourseAvaible) {
            isCourseAvaible = true;
            List<CoursesDTO> coursesDTOs = AppMgr.coursesMgr(response);
            String[] ids = new String[0];
            String id;
            if (coursesDTOs != null) {
                ids = new String[coursesDTOs.size()];
                for (int i = 0; i < coursesDTOs.size(); i++) {
                    ids[i] = coursesDTOs.get(i).getListId();

                }
            }
            id = TextUtils.join(",", ids);
            Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
            map.put("part", "snippet,contentDetails");
            map.put("playlistId", id);
            map.put("key", AppConstants.YOUTUBE_KEY);
            NetworkRequest networkRequest = new NetworkRequest();
            networkRequest.stringParamRequest("some url", map);
        } else {
            Log.d(TAG, response);
        }

    }

    @Subscribe(threadMode = ThreadMode.MAIN)
    public void onEvent(VolleyError error) {
        Log.d(TAG, error.toString());
        Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Something went wrong " + error.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

How can I differentiate the callType within onEvent(). Some guidance is required. Thanks much.

Answer 1

One option is to wrap the two pieces of data you need into a class and pass that to event bus. Leaving off private members, getters/setters and constructors for brevity.

class NetworkResponse() {
   public String callType;
   public String response;
}

When you get a response, allocate a NetworkResponse and populate it with the response and the call type and post that to the event bus.

@Subscribe(threadMode = ThreadMode.MAIN)
public void onEvent(NetworkResponse networkResponse) {
  if(networkResponse.callType.equals(CALL_1)) {
     // ...
  } else if (networkResponse.callType.equals(CALL_2)) {
     // ...
  }

}