Request Data - WebViewClient

Android WebViewClient with a custom WebResourceRequest that contains the POST/PUT/... payload of XMLHttpRequest requests

This project is inspired by https://github.com/KeejOow/android-post-webview and draws some code from there.

When you need to display a webview to the user on which you need to intercept the HTTP calls and perform them yourself (for example to add additional security), you can do so on Android by registering a WebViewClient and implementing

WebResourceResponse shouldInterceptRequest(android.webkit.WebView webview, WebResourceRequest request)

Unfortunately, the request object passed to this method does not contain any POST data.

This project provides a hack around this limitation by injecting a script into the HTML that intercepts AJAX calls.

It provides the WriteHandlingWebViewClient class that extends WebViewClient and provides the

WebResourceResponse shouldInterceptRequest(final WebView view, WriteHandlingWebResourceRequest request)

method to override.

WriteHandlingWebResourceRequest extends WebResourceRequest, but provides the crucial method

public String getAjaxData()

which returns the data in the request body of the AJAX request.

Installation

• Add the writeinterceptingwebview folder as a libarary module to your android project.
• jCenter-Maven package will come as soon as I figure out how to do that ... Say what you want about pip, at least it's easy to upload a package.

Example usage

webView.setWebViewClient(new WriteHandlingWebViewClient() {
   @Override
   public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WriteHandlingWebResourceRequest request) {
        // works the same as WebViewClient.shouldOverrideUrlLoading, 
        // but you have request.getAjaxData() which gives you the 
        // request body
   }
});

What about forms? What about other kind of http requests?

The library can probably be extended to work for forms too. In fact, https://github.com/KeejOow/android-post-webview shows how it's done. However, I wasn't happy with my adaption of this so far. Pull requests are welcome ...