Support custom request headers in FeedsConfig

[gpunto]

Goal

Closes FEEDS-1755

Let integrators send custom headers on API requests. The main use case is x-stream-ext, which the backend now delivers as request_info.ext in feeds webhook payloads (chat#15648). Until now no feeds SDK could set a header, so request_info.ext was always empty for SDK users. Mirrors the custom_headers option shipped in JS (stream-feeds-js#309).

FeedsClient(
    context = context,
    apiKey = apiKey,
    user = user,
    tokenProvider = tokenProvider,
    config = FeedsConfig(customHeaders = mapOf("x-stream-ext" to "version=1.2.3")),
)

Implementation

• Add customHeaders: Map<String, String> to FeedsConfig.
• Add internal/http/CustomHeaders.kt: createCustomHeadersInterceptor turns the map into an interceptor, or into nothing if no header survives. It is the only thing the file exposes, so an interceptor cannot be built from headers that skipped the checks.
• Register it in createHttpConfig, ahead of the logging interceptor so the headers appear in HTTP logs.

Behaviour, and why:

• Reserved names are dropped with a warning. Ours runs after core's interceptors and uses OkHttp's header(), which replaces, so a caller-supplied Authorization would otherwise override the real one. Reordering would not help: core uses addHeader, so it would append a second value rather than reclaim the header. The list is Authorization, stream-auth-type and X-Stream-Client from core, plus the ones OkHttp sets only when absent and so cannot reclaim: Content-Type, Content-Length, Transfer-Encoding, Connection, Accept-Encoding and Host. Overriding Accept-Encoding stops OkHttp decompressing responses, Host changes routing, Connection breaks pooling, and the framing headers corrupt a bodiless request. User-Agent and Cookie stay overridable.
• Invalid names and values are rejected, not dropped, since a silently discarded header would leave the caller believing it was sent. The message names the header but never its value, which may be a secret and would otherwise reach the app's crash reporter.
• Two names differing only in case are rejected too. HTTP treats them as one header, so picking a winner would depend on the iteration order of a map the caller supplied. Reserved names are dropped before this check, so two spellings of a header we ignore anyway do not fail the build.

Scope is HTTP only: StreamWebSocketFactory builds its own OkHttpClient, so the WebSocket handshake is untouched.

The api dump changes: adding a parameter to FeedsConfig's primary constructor drops the previously published <init>(Uploader, LoggingConfig) signature. Accepted rather than shimmed.

Testing

• CustomHeadersTest: 10 cases over the factory and the interceptor, covering reserved drops and their warnings, rejection of invalid names, invalid values and case duplicates, and that the value never appears in the error.
• HttpClientFactoriesTest: interceptor present and ordered before logging, and absent when every supplied header is reserved.
• spotlessCheck, lint, apiCheck, assembleDebug and :testCoverage pass locally.

Not covered: that x-stream-ext actually arrives as request_info.ext on a delivered webhook. That needs a live app with a webhook configured, and is currently unverified for every feeds SDK: the backend's own feeds webhook test leaves ext unasserted, noting the JS client could not set the header when it was written, which is no longer true. Tracked as a follow-up.

Checklist

• Issue linked (if any)
• Tests/docs updated
• I have signed the Stream CLA (required for external contributors)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for configuring custom HTTP headers for API requests.
  • Custom headers are validated and applied automatically to requests.
  • Reserved or SDK-managed headers cannot be overridden.
  • Custom headers are excluded from WebSocket requests.
  • Invalid header names, values, or duplicate names are rejected during client setup.

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SDK Size Comparison 📏

SDK	Before	After	Difference	Status
stream-feeds-android-client	2.53 MB	2.53 MB	0.00 MB	🟢

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Walkthrough

FeedsConfig now accepts custom HTTP headers. The client validates headers, excludes protected names, applies accepted headers to HTTP requests, and places the interceptor before logging. Tests cover validation, warnings, request mutation, and ordering.

Changes

Custom HTTP header support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Header configuration contract stream-feeds-android-client/api/..., stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/api/model/FeedsConfig.kt, stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/api/FeedsClient.kt	FeedsConfig exposes customHeaders. The API declaration and factory documentation describe the new configuration.
Header validation and interception stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/http/CustomHeaders.kt	The interceptor rejects invalid or duplicate headers, warns for protected headers, and applies accepted headers to HTTP requests.
Client wiring and validation coverage stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/http/HttpClientFactories.kt, stream-feeds-android-client/src/test/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/http/*	The custom-header interceptor runs before logging. Tests cover filtering, validation, request mutation, and interceptor ordering.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e4ec1

Custom request headers are added to HTTP requests, but the current logging path can expose their values when detailed logging is enabled, creating a potential credential or privacy leak. Merge should wait for header-value redaction and the related logging test; the missing HTTP-only documentation is a minor follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant App
  participant FeedsConfig
  participant HttpClientFactories
  participant CustomHeadersInterceptor
  participant FeedsAPI
  App->>FeedsConfig: configure customHeaders
  FeedsConfig->>HttpClientFactories: provide configuration
  HttpClientFactories->>CustomHeadersInterceptor: validate and create interceptor
  CustomHeadersInterceptor->>FeedsAPI: send accepted HTTP headers
  FeedsAPI-->>App: return API response

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A rabbit packed headers neat,
With names and values crisp and sweet.
The guarded ones stayed out of sight,
Valid ones joined each request right.
Logs saw the headers before flight.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding custom request headers to FeedsConfig.
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Inline comments:
In
`@stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/api/FeedsClient.kt`:
- Around line 709-710: Update the KDoc for the client configuration parameter
near FeedsClient to clarify that custom headers are sent with every HTTP request
only and do not apply to WebSocket handshakes, while preserving the existing
reference to FeedsConfig.

In
`@stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/http/HttpClientFactories.kt`:
- Around line 39-44: Update the HTTP client interceptor setup around
createCustomHeadersInterceptor and createLoggingInterceptor to redact every
configured custom-header name before logging at Headers or Body levels, while
preserving the existing custom-header behavior. Add a test verifying each
configured custom-header value is absent from the HTTP log output.

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• stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/api/model/FeedsConfig.kt
• stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/client/Create.kt
• stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/http/CustomHeaders.kt
• stream-feeds-android-client/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/http/HttpClientFactories.kt
• stream-feeds-android-client/src/test/kotlin/io/getstream/feeds/android/client/internal/http/CustomHeadersTest.kt
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