I'm trying to implement Refit using Xamarin and for some reason it throws a UnknownHostException (UHExc) if I was previously not connected to wifi while the app was open. This doesn't happen consistently though.
I have these two calls to Refit's instantiation of my "Refit-interface": PostLoginAsync and GetDataAsync, as shown below (the guide I've been following is here):
public async Task<SomeClass> PostLogin(string user, string password)
{
SomeClass response = null;
var loginTask = apiService.UserInitiated.PostLoginAsync(new RequestBody(user: user, password: password));
response = await FireWebTask(loginTask);
return response;
}
and
private async Task<List<Data>> GetRemoteDataAsync(string args)
{
List<Data> list = null;
var getDataTask = apiService.UserInitiated.GetDataAsync(args);
list = await FireWebTask(getDataTask);
return list;
}
The "Refit-interface" looks somewhat like this:
...
[Post("/relative/url/to/login")]
Task<SomeClass> PostLoginAsync([Body(BodySerializationMethod.Json)] RequestBody requestBody);
[Get("/relative/url/to/data")]
Task<List<Data>> GetDataAsync([Header("SomeHeader")] string args);
...
When I open the app with no connection to the internet and try to send the PostLogin-request, I get an UHExc as expected. If I then turn on the wifi and try again (without closing the app) I get the UHExc again, only this time with almost no delay as the first time (as if the exception was cached??). Restarting the app and trying again without disconnecting the wifi works fine.
If I do the exact same thing with the second request (GetData) I first get an UHExc (obviously) but when reconnecting the wifi it works flawlessly. So it seems to me like the POST-request caches the exception or something and throws it repeatedly without trying to connect at all. How can I solve this (whatever the problem actually is)?
