[aerogear-dev] AEROGEAR-894 Restadapter threading

[Douglas Campos]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:31:36PM -0500, Summers Pittman wrote:
> So RestAdapter right not has to be used from the UI thread (an
> Activity or Fragment) otherwise the callback may not be called.  More
> specifically, the callback provided to read, save, etc is only called
> on the UI thread of the application.  This makes it really easy to put
> UI code in the callback, but the side effect is if the UI thread is
> blocked or not running then the callback won't get fired.
> 
> I don't think this is a huge problem for 1.0 (assuming we document
> it), but I would like to get it fixed sooner rather than later.

How much time would this take to be fixed? I think this is something
that needs to be fixed before 1.0 if possible...

> The easiest was to fix it would be to attach a handle to a Thread (via
> a Handler, Looper, or Thread) to PipeConfig that is passed to the
> RestAdapter.  If one isn't provided we can keep the same behavior we
> have now otherwise we can use the provided thread.  
How the other client libraries address it? Is this a no-brainer for "the
average android dev"?

-- qmx