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Getting null in geocoder getSubAdminArea request however 10 days before it was returning a valid value

I am using Geocoder for getting city, district and State name in Android App based on java
String state = addresses.get(0).getAdminArea();
String district = addresses.get(0).getSubAdminArea(0);
String city = addresses.get(0).getLocality();
Before 10 days I was getting perfect results but now district value is null
I tried a lot and I think the problem is with the getSubAdminArea request because other requests are working properly please help me out on this.

It suddenly stops working for me as well. For now, just to not break the functionality we have followed the alternative approach to get the Sub Admin area.
As an alternative, we can get the pin code of the area using getPostalCode() method and then, with the help of pin code , we can fetch the Sub Admin area.

Solr search not working properly

I am searching for String Kansas City in description field.
"q":"description: *Kansas City*", but I am getting the results for both Kansas and City. Also it is getting the results from content field as well. I am not sure why it is fetching results from content field. Please suggest me if I am doing any error in my query.

Your quoting is wrong
description:"kansas city"
for example
What are the stars for?

After tokenizing and parsing query it looks like kansas city is tokenized into "kansas" and "city" and filters are applied as per fieldtype definition.
then they are searched in fieldname specified.
description:*Kansas
after tokenizing/word splitting, "city" becomes
different word for which you didn't specify fieldname. so by default it is searched in defaultfield(which is may be content in your case)
defaultsearchfield:city*
in your case after parsing description:kansasandcontent:city you can see the same debugQuery=on with URL in your browser.

How to add 2nd street-line in google contacts StructuredPostalAddres (GData)

After reading the documentation and Google's developer guide, I did not find a to add a second address line.
For example, if I want to store this address as a Google contact :
Mr. Ace Person
Amphitheatre Village Premium Outlets
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View CA 94043
I can add the street as demonstrated in the developer guide :
StructuredPostalAddress postalAddress = new StructuredPostalAddress();
postalAddress.setStreet(new Street("1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy"));
I couldn't find a structured solution to add a "2 line street address".
Obviously I could add one of the two lines as a house-name (setHousename(housename)) or Neighborhood (setNeighborhood(neighborhood)) but this is not quiet right.

Unfortunately, there is no document or feature that support what you want to accomplish. According to the current document pertaining to the element's property which you can choose what appropriate property to work around you 2nd street line. I hope it helps.

Get historic prices by ISIN from yahoo finance

I have the following problem:
I have around 1000 unique ISIN numbers of stock exchange listed companies.
I need the historic prices of these companies starting with the earliest listing until today on a daily basis.
However, as far as my research goes, yahoo can only provide prices for stock ticker symbols, which I do not have.
Is there a way to get for example for ISIN: AT0000609664, which is the company Porr the historic prices from yahoo automatically via their api?
I appreciate your replies!

The Answer:
To get the Yahoo ticker symbol from an ISIN, take a look at the yahoo.finance.isin table, here is an example query:
http://query.yahooapis.com:80/v1/public/yql?q=select * from yahoo.finance.isin where symbol in ("DE000A1EWWW0")&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys
This returns the ticker ADS.DE inside an XML:
<query yahoo:count="1" yahoo:created="2015-09-21T12:18:01Z" yahoo:lang="en-US">
<results>
<stock symbol="DE000A1EWWW0">
<Isin>ADS.DE</Isin>
</stock>
</results>
</query>
<!-- total: 223 -->
<!-- pprd1-node600-lh3.manhattan.bf1.yahoo.com -->
I am afraid your example ISIN won't work, but that's an error on Yahoos side (see Yahoo Symbol Lookup, type your ISINs in there to check if the ticker exists on Yahoo).
The Implementation:
Sorry, I am not proficient in Java or R anymore, but this C# code should be almost similar enough to copy/paste:
public String GetYahooSymbol(string isin)
{
string query = GetQuery(isin);
XDocument result = GetHttpResult(query);
XElement stock = result.Root.Element("results").Element("stock");
return stock.Element("Isin").Value.ToString();
}
where GetQuery(string isin) returns the URI for the query to yahoo (see my example URI) and GetHttpResult(string URI) fetches the XML from the web. Then you have to extract the contents of the Isin node and you're done.
I assume you have already implemented the actual data fetch using ticker symbols.
Also see this question for the inverse problem (symbol -> isin). But for the record:
Query to fetch historical data for a symbol
http://query.yahooapis.com:80/v1/public/yql?q=select * from yahoo.finance.historicaldata where symbol in ("ADS.DE") and startDate = "2015-06-14" and endDate = "2015-09-22"&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys
where you may pass arbitrary dates and an arbitrary list of ticker symbols. It's up to you to build the query in your code and to pull the results from the XML you get back. The response will be along the lines of
<query xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" yahoo:count="71" yahoo:created="2015-09-22T20:00:39Z" yahoo:lang="en-US">
<results>
<quote Symbol="ADS.DE">
<Date>2015-09-21</Date>
<Open>69.94</Open>
<High>71.21</High>
<Low>69.65</Low>
<Close>70.79</Close>
<Volume>973600</Volume>
<Adj_Close>70.79</Adj_Close>
</quote>
<quote Symbol="ADS.DE">
<Date>2015-09-18</Date>
<Open>70.00</Open>
<High>71.43</High>
<Low>69.62</Low>
<Close>70.17</Close>
<Volume>3300200</Volume>
<Adj_Close>70.17</Adj_Close>
</quote>
......
</results>
</query>
<!-- total: 621 -->
<!-- pprd1-node591-lh3.manhattan.bf1.yahoo.com -->
This should get you far enough to write your own code. Note that there are possibilities to get data as .csv format with &e=.csv at the end of the query, but I don't know much about that or if it will work for the queries above, so see here for reference.

I found a Web-Service which provides historic data based on date range. Please have a look
http://splice.xignite.com/services/Xignite/XigniteHistorical/GetHistoricalQuotesRange.aspx

How to show formatted contact numbers?

I have a field called phone number which has values such as 0833888999 that I want to format as following 0833 888 999.
The answer that Rachana offered blew is true for few countries but not all countries.
Therefore,
I am using this Google library to format contact numbers from different countries; however, the problem is that after persisting the contact numbers in database I can not search for them on database, for example the library would format contact numbers of different countries in different format, for example add space or "-" between them that makes hibernate unable to find them.
+18182223333 >>> +1 818-222-3333
+441135558888 >>> +44 113 555 8888
Hibernate
.add(Restrictions.ilike("user.phone","+18182223333");

Try this
<s:property value="getText('{0,number,0### ### ###}',{phone})"/>
Where,phone=0833888999
Hope this will help you also see Using Struts2 Tags to Formatting Numbers
you will get clear idea about number formatting

I think you should keep the raw phone number (e.g. 0833888999) in the database and it's the View responsibility to format it accordingly.
You can have a separate table "country_phone_format" holding a country_id and a phone_format and you could fetch the phone_format as a #ManyToOne entity so that you have both the raw data and the format to properly display it into the View.
The PhoneFormat could be easily cached with the second level cache, as they should be rarely modified.

Just as Vlad mentions, you should keep the raw phone number (e.g. 0833888999) in the database (or save it with the country and area code if you prefer) and leave th responsibility to format it accordingly to the View.
You can use Type Conversion to convert to/from the format you desire - and take advantage of the google library you mention. Something like the following can get you started (abbreviated just to get the gist of it):
public class MyConverter extends StrutsTypeConverter {
public Object convertFromString(Map context, String[] values, Class toClass) {
String phoneNr = values[0]
MyPhoneObject phone = googleLibrary.doYourMagic(phoneNr);
return phone;
}
public String convertToString(Map context, Object o) {
googleLibrary.parseString( ((MyPhoneObject)o).rawPhoneNr() );
}
}
Don't forget to register the converter in xwork-conversion.properties
my.PhoneObject=path.to.MyConverter