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Java parsing json array, Error parsing data org.json.JSONException

This is my code, in my log, i'm getting:
E/JSON Parser: Error parsing data org.json.JSONException Value xml of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject
I really need a solution i have been searching for weeks now.
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... para) {
List<NameValuePair> params=new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
JSONObject json=jparser.makeHttpRequest(getDataUrl, "POST", params);
try {
success=json.getInt("success");
if(success==1){
drivers=new ArrayList<Driver>();
JSONArray sounds=json.getJSONArray("location");
for (int i = 0; i < sounds.length(); i++) {
JSONObject jobj=sounds.getJSONObject(i);
Driver d=new Driver();
d.setId(jobj.getString("id"));
d.setName(jobj.getString("name"));
d.setEmail(jobj.getString("email"));
d.setNumber(jobj.getString("number"));
d.setLatitude(jobj.getString("latitude"));
d.setLongitude(jobj.getString("longitude"));
d.setInfo(jobj.getString("info"));
d.setCost(jobj.getString("cost"));
drivers.add(d);
}
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
error=1;
}catch (Exception e) {
error=1;
}
return null;
}
And this is the JSONParser class
JSONParser.java
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
// function get json from url
// by making HTTP POST or GET mehtod
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
List<NameValuePair> params) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// check for request method
if(method.equals("POST")){
// request method is POST
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
} else if(method.equals("GET")) {
// request method is GET
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}
PHP File
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
$response = array();
// include db connect class
require_once 'core/db_connect.php';
$db = new DB_CONNECT();
$sql="SELECT * FROM locations WHERE online=1";
$result = mysqli_query($db->connect(), $sql) or die(mysqli_error($db->connect()));
if (mysqli_num_rows($result)>0) {
$response["location"] = array();
while ($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$files=array();
$files["id"]=$row["id"];
$files["name"]=$row["name"];
$files["email"]=$row["email"];
$files["number"]=$row["number"];
$files["latitude"]=$row["latitude"];
$files["longitude"]=$row["longitude"];
$files["info"]=$row["vehicleinfo"];
$files["cost"]=$row["costpkm"];
array_push($response["location"], $files);
}
$response["success"]=1;
echo json_encode($response);
} else {
$response["success"]=0;
$response["message"]="No Taxi found";
echo json_encode($response);
}
?>

Based on your error, the return result for makeHttpRequest is an xml object instead of json formated string.

Solved
the error was due to incorrect url, the xampp apache server was returning an object not found page..error 404, which is an xml file. That's why the return result for makeHttpRequest is an xml object instead of json formated string.

How to set TimeOut while HTTP Connection in Android?

Hello I have this code from Androidhive:
It works well but I want to install a timeout - because sometimes if there is low connection it is loading for minutes so the app is crashing at the and (asynctask). so my question: how can I install a timeout into the following code? Let's say it shall timeout after 10 seconds?
thank u
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
List<NameValuePair> params) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// check for request method
if(method == "POST"){
// request method is POST
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}else if(method == "GET"){
// request method is GET
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
String paramString = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "utf-8");
url += "?" + paramString;
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}

For each loop is not executing when uploaded at 000webhost server

I have an application that post data to a php file in an online server. When the post is done i get a garbage of html code. In it says I have a php error and that is Invalid argument supplied for each() on line 33. However this problem does not occur if I run it in localhost. I don't understand why this problem is occuring. So someone please help me to solve it.
The following is my jsonparser Class
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
public JSONObject getandpostJSONFromUrl(String url, String method,JSONArray name) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// defaultHttpClient
if (method == "POST") {
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
//params.setParameter("data", auth);
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
List<NameValuePair> postParams = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
postParams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("json", name.toString()));
for (NameValuePair nvp : postParams) {
String name2 = nvp.getName();
String value = nvp.getValue();
Log.d("NameValue pair content", ""+name2+""+value);
}
UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParams,HTTP.UTF_8);
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
String responseBody = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
Log.d("",responseBody);
}
if (method == "GET") {
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
if (method == "POST") {
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(is));
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer error", "Buffer error" + e);
}
} else if (method == "GET") {
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}
The following is the php file on the server
<?php
header('Content-type: application/json');
/*define('DB_NAME', 'a1422982_sshop');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');*/
define('DB_NAME', 'onlineshop');
define('DB_USER', 'shop');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'pass');
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql28.000webhost.com');
$link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD);
if(!$link){
die('could not connect: '.msql_error());
}
$db_selected=mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $link);
if(!$db_selected){
die('Can not use '.DB_NAME.':'.mysql_error());
}
//var_dump(json_decode ($_POST['json'])));
if($_POST['json']){
$parsed = json_decode($_POST['json'],TRUE);
$i=0;
foreach ($parsed as $obj) {
$ProductName = $obj['Name'];
$ProductQuantity= $obj['Quantity'];
$sql="Update productlist Set Quantity='$ProductQuantity' where Name='$ProductName';";
$retval = mysql_query( $sql, $link );
if(! $retval )
{
die('Could not get data: ' . mysql_error());
}
$i++;
echo $ProductName." ".$ProductQuantity;
}
}else{
echo "empty";
}
?>

there's a missing options on your HttpPost request set the entity metadata and the resulting entity as string.
In your java code you can do this:
Map<String, String> postData = new HashMap<String, String>();
postData.put("KEY", "yourvalue");
JSONObject holder = new JSONObject(postData);
StringEntity jsonStringEntity = new StringEntity(holder.toString());
httpost.setEntity(jsonStringEntity);
httpost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
in that way your PHP code could actually parse your post data since json_decode() expecting json as parameter.

Using Hebrew on JSON code?

I am using this code to POST and GET data from MySQL database .
However when getting data that is not in English, it is displayed as question marks ?
what changes do I make to enable Hebrew language use ?
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
public JSONParser() {
}
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,List<NameValuePair> params) {
try {
if(method == "POST"){
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}else if(method == "GET"){
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
String paramString = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "utf-8");
url += "?" + paramString;
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
return jObj;
}
}

Make sure your HTTP response comes out encoded in Unicode (UTF-8 for example), and also your client (the application consuming the service) must be aware that of that encoding to read your response.

Parse Json Arabic text

I can't parse Arabic/Persian text from SQL database. Everything is set to UTF-8. My SQL database text is set to utf8_general_ci. JSON parser is set to UTF-8 too.
Text is shown good in English. But when I use Arabic/Persian text in database, android shows text as ???????.
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
// function get json from url
// by making HTTP POST or GET method
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
List<NameValuePair> params) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// check for request method
if(method == "POST"){
// request method is POST
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}else if(method == "GET"){
// request method is GET
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
String paramString = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "utf-8");
url += "?" + paramString;
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "UTF-8"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}

I have been r & d around a day and finally success to parse my arabic json response getting from server using following code.So, may be helpful to you.
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(params, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(params, "UTF-8");
params.setBooleanParameter("http.protocol.expect-continue", false);
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(Your_URL);
HttpResponse http_response= httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = http_response.getEntity();
String jsonText = EntityUtils.toString(entity, HTTP.UTF_8);
Log.i("Response", jsonText);
Now, use jsonText for your further requirement.
Thank You

Maybe the problem is on server side. Check the raw String you got from the Server to see if it is correctly formatted.

I think it can help you by storing it as clob/blob, since once you have the bytes which were convereted from UTF-8 at server side, any client side code can also then using various String encoding formats to display the test.
Or my other advice, use a webview to display it, its more mature to handle these nuances.