Thinky is a lightweight Node.js ORM for RethinkDB. The library helps you to define models representing the objects you’re using within your code. Further, you can define various relations between each of your models. Primarily, Thinky helps you to CRUD documents in RethinkDB out of your Node.js …

CoreOS is suited for all kinds of use cases. In the previous blog posts we’ve shown you how to submit and run a Node.js application inside a Docker container on a CoreOS cluster and also how to scale this Node.js app to multiple instances across the cluster. …

This is the second post taking a closer look at the new Retrofit 2 Call class. If you haven't read the first part, where we look on how to reuse and analyze the request using the Call class, check it out here. In this blog post, we'll show you how …

In this blog post of our Retrofit launch sequence we'll show you one of the most requested topics: how to download files. We'll give you all the insight and snippets you need to use Retrofit to download everything, from tiny .png's to large .zip files. If this is your first …

Retrofit 2 finally comes with an additional annotation for dynamic urls. What was a hackaround in Retrofit 1 is now just a single @Url annotation for the endpoint declaration. This post will show you how to make use of dynamic endpoint urls for individual requests. {{video}} {{outline}} Use-Case Scenarios There …

Adding request parameters can be kind of pain in the a** if your service methods allows multiple query parameters which also can be optional. We’ve published an article describing how to use optional query parameters. Today, we’re going to simplify the handling of multiple query parameters by introducing …

Adding query parameters to single requests is straight forward. You’re using the @Query annotation for your parameter declaration within the interface methods. This tells Retrofit to translate the provided query parameter name and value to the request and append the fields to the url. Recently, we’ve been asked …

You’ve already learned how to add custom request header using Retrofit. This post specifically touches the details on adding request headers using Retrofit 2 and the OkHttp interceptor. Interceptors are a good way to statically change requests executed with the specific service client which has the interceptor assigned. {{outline} …