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How to check if string is empty

I have an activity 'B'. I have 2 more activities A and C. Both the activities lead to B. But i pass different Data from A and C. So while fetching
String dataFromA = getIntent.getStringExtra("SomethingA");
String dataFromC = getIntent.getStringExtra("SomethingC");
How to not get an error. I wont know from where the user is getting to activity B So how do i add an If statement or seomthing to not get an error while fetching as Either line A or C will get a NullPOinterException

You can use hasExtra method to check if that String exists.
if (getIntent().hasExtra("SomethingA")) {
String dataFromA = getIntent.getStringExtra("SomethingA");
} else if (getIntent().hasExtra("SomethingC")) {
String dataFromC = getIntent.getStringExtra("SomethingC");
}

You can try this code.
Bundle arguments = getArguments();
if (arguments != null){
if (arguments.containsKey("SomethingA")) {
String somethingA = arguments.getString("SomethingA");
if (TextUtils.isEmpty(somethingA)){
// Your codes comes here
}
}
}
Bundle (arguments) can be null if there is no data passed.

To check if string is empty or not use below code :
if(TextUtils.isEmpty(yourString))
{
// String empty
}
else
{
// string not empty
}
In your case you check it as :
if (getIntent()!=null && getIntent().getStringExtra!=null )
{
if (getIntent().hasExtra("SomethingA") && getIntent().hasExtra("SomethingB"))
String dataFromA = getIntent.getStringExtra("SomethingA");
String dataFromB = getIntent.getStringExtra("SomethingB");
}

Using Jackcess to retrieve numeric values stored in a text field gives ClassCastException

I am working with Jackcess to read and categorize an access database. It's simply meant to open the database, loop through each line, and print out individual row data to the console which meet certain conditions. It works fine, except for when I try to read numeric values. My code is below. (This code is built into a Swing GUI and gets executed when a jbutton is pressed.)
if (inv == null) { // Check to see if inventory file has been set. If not, then set it to the default reference path.
inv = rPath;
}
if (inventoryFile.exists()) { // Check to see if the reference path exists.
List<String> testTypes = jList1.getSelectedValuesList();
List<String> evalTypes = jList3.getSelectedValuesList();
List<String> grainTypes = jList2.getSelectedValuesList();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i=0; i<=evalTypes.size()-1; i++) {
if (i<evalTypes.size()-1) {
sb.append(evalTypes.get(i)).append(" ");
}
else {
sb.append(evalTypes.get(i));
}
}
String evalType = sb.toString();
try (Database db = DatabaseBuilder.open(new File(inv));) {
Table sampleList = db.getTable("NTEP SAMPLES LIST");
Cursor cursor = CursorBuilder.createCursor(sampleList);
for (int i=0; i<=testTypes.size()-1; i++) {
if ("Sample Volume".equals(testTypes.get(i))) {
if (grainTypes.size() == 1 && "HRW".equals(grainTypes.get(0))) {
switch (evalType) {
case "GMM":
for (Row row : sampleList){
if (null != row.getString("CURRENTGAC")) {}
if ("HRW".equals(row.get("GRAIN")) && row.getDouble("CURRENTGAC")>=12.00) {
System.out.print(row.get("GRAIN") + "\t");
System.out.println(row.get("CURRENTGAC"));
}
}
break;
case "NIRT":
// some conditional code
break;
case "TW":
// some more code
break;
}
}
else {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Only HRW samples can be used for the selected test(s).", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}
break;
}
}
}
catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(SampleFilterGUI.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
When the code is run I get the following error:
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Double
The following condition looks to be what is throwing the error.
row.getDouble("CURRENTGAC")>=12.00
It appears that when the data is read from the database, the program is reading everything as a string, even though some fields are numeric. I was attempting to cast this field as a double, but java doesn't seem to like that. I have tried using the Double.parseDouble() and Double.valueOf() commands to try converting the value (as mentioned here) but without success.
My question is, how can I convert these fields to numeric values? Is trying to type cast the way to go, or is there a different method I'm not aware of? You will also notice in the code that I created a cursor, but am not using it. The original plan was to use it for navigating through the database, but I found some example code from the jackcess webpage and decided to use that instead. Not sure if that was the right move or not, but it seemed like a simpler solution. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT:
To ensure the program was reading a string value from my database, I input the following code
row.get("CURRENTGAC").getClass().getName()
The output was java.lang.String, so this confirms that it is a string. As was suggested, I changed the following code
case "GMM":
for (Row row : sampleList){
if (null != row.get("CURRENTGAC"))
//System.out.println(row.get("CURRENTGAC").getClass().getName());
System.out.println(String.format("|%s|", row.getString("CURRENTGAC")));
/*if ("HRW".equals(row.get("GRAIN")) && row.getDouble("CURRENTGAC")>=12.00 && row.getDouble("CURRENTGAC")<=14.00) {
System.out.print(row.get("GRAIN") + "\t");
System.out.println(row.get("CURRENTGAC"));
}*/
}
break;
The ouput to the console from these changes is below
|9.85|
|11.76|
|9.57|
|12.98|
|10.43|
|13.08|
|10.53|
|11.46|
...
This output, although looks numeric, is still of the string type. So when I tried to run it with my conditional statement (which is commented out in the updated sample code) I still get the same java.lang.ClassCastException error that I was getting before.

Jackcess does not return all values as strings. It will retrieve the fields (columns) of a table as the appropriate Java type for that Access field type. For example, with a test table named "Table1" ...
ID DoubleField TextField
-- ----------- ---------
1 1.23 4.56
... the following Java code ...
Table t = db.getTable("Table1");
for (Row r : t) {
Object o;
Double d;
String fieldName;
fieldName = "DoubleField";
o = r.get(fieldName);
System.out.println(String.format(
"%s comes back as: %s",
fieldName,
o.getClass().getName()));
System.out.println(String.format(
"Value: %f",
o));
System.out.println();
fieldName = "TextField";
o = r.get(fieldName);
System.out.println(String.format(
"%s comes back as: %s",
fieldName,
o.getClass().getName()));
System.out.println(String.format(
"Value: %s",
o));
try {
d = r.getDouble(fieldName);
} catch (Exception x) {
System.out.println(String.format(
"r.getDouble(\"%s\") failed - %s: %s",
fieldName,
x.getClass().getName(),
x.getMessage()));
}
try {
d = Double.parseDouble(r.getString(fieldName));
System.out.println(String.format(
"Double.parseDouble(r.getString(\"%s\")) succeeded. Value: %f",
fieldName,
d));
} catch (Exception x) {
System.out.println(String.format(
"Double.parseDouble(r.getString(\"%s\")) failed: %s",
fieldName,
x.getClass().getName()));
}
System.out.println();
}
... produces:
DoubleField comes back as: java.lang.Double
Value: 1.230000
TextField comes back as: java.lang.String
Value: 4.56
r.getDouble("TextField") failed - java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Double
Double.parseDouble(r.getString("TextField")) succeeded. Value: 4.560000
If you are unable to get Double.parseDouble() to parse the string values from your database then either
they contain "funny characters" that are not apparent from the samples you posted, or
you're doing it wrong.
Additional information re: your sample file
Jackcess is returning CURRENTGAC as String because it is a Text field in the table:
The following Java code ...
Table t = db.getTable("NTEP SAMPLES LIST");
int countNotNull = 0;
int countAtLeast12 = 0;
for (Row r : t) {
String s = r.getString("CURRENTGAC");
if (s != null) {
countNotNull++;
Double d = Double.parseDouble(s);
if (d >= 12.00) {
countAtLeast12++;
}
}
}
System.out.println(String.format(
"Scan complete. Found %d non-null CURRENTGAC values, %d of which were >= 12.00.",
countNotNull,
countAtLeast12));
... produces ...
Scan complete. Found 100 non-null CURRENTGAC values, 62 of which were >= 12.00.

Converting String to java.net.URI

First apologies, I'm mainly a Perl person doing some Java. I've read some literature but can't get this to give me the signature that I need:
logger.debug("Entered addRelationships");
boolean rval = true;
for(int i=0;i<relationships.length;i++)
{
URI converted_uri ;
try {
converted_uri = new URI("relationships[i].datatype") ;
} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
logger.error("Error converting datatype", e);
return rval = false ;
}
boolean r = addRelationship(context, relationships[i].subject,
relationships[i].predicate, relationships[i].object,
relationships[i].isLiteral, converted_uri);
if(r==false)
{
rval = false;
}
}
return rval;
}
The resulting error is:
addRelationship(org.fcrepo.server.Context,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,boolean,java.lang.String) in org.fcrepo.server.management.DefaultManagement cannot be applied to (org.fcrepo.server.Context,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,boolean,java.net.URI)
It seems to me that converted_uri is a URI at the end of this? datatype was a String in the previous release, so no gymnastics were required!

Just remove the qoutes:
converted_uri = new URI(relationships[i].datatype) ;
When you are using quotes, exactly as in perl you are dealing with string literal. If you want to refer to variable you have to mention it in code directly.

While #AlexR pointed out another problem in your code, it's not the cause of the problem you identified in your question.
You had a compile error, and an error in the syntax of the URI will only show up at runtime like the one that #AlexR identified.
The problem you have is that you are trying to pass a URI as the last argument, but the method addRelationship expects a String as the last argument. That's what the error says.
(The first part of the error says what the signature of the method is in reality, as you see it ends in java.lang.String, while the second part of the error says what type of data you are trying to give to the method, and as you see that one ends in java.net.URI)
So it seems that the URI was not changed as you expected; it still needs a String.
Solution is to change your code to:
boolean rval = true;
for(int i = 0; i < relationships.length; i++)
{
boolean r = addRelationship(context, relationships[i].subject,
relationships[i].predicate, relationships[i].object,
relationships[i].isLiteral, relationships[i].datatype);
if (!r)
{
rval = false;
}
}
return rval;

Null Pointer Exception: null error [duplicate]

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I have this Hash Set code and when I try to run my compile method on it I get the Null Pointer Exception: null error on it. Here is the code:
private void initKeywords() {
keywords = new HashSet<String>();
keywords.add("final");
keywords.add("int");
keywords.add("while");
keywords.add("if");
keywords.add("else");
keywords.add("print");
}
private boolean isIdent(String t) {
if (keywords.contains(t)) { ***//This is the line I get the Error***
return false;
}
else if (t != null && t.length() > 0 && Character.isLetter(t.charAt(0))) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
The other lines that goes along with this error is:
public void compileProgram() {
System.out.println("compiling " + filename);
while (theToken != null) {
if (equals(theToken, "int") || equals(theToken, "final")) {
compileDeclaration(true);
} else {
compileFunction(); //This line is giving an error with the above error
}
}
cs.emit(Machine.HALT);
isCompiled = true;
}
private void compileFunction() {
String fname = theToken;
int entryPoint = cs.getPos();
if (equals(fname, "main")) {
cs.setEntry(entryPoint);
}
if (isIdent(theToken)) theToken = t.token(); ***//This line is giving an error***
else t.error("expecting identifier, got " + theToken);
symTable.allocProc(fname,entryPoint);
accept("(");
compileParamList();
accept(")");
compileCompound(true);
if (equals(fname, "main")) cs.emit(Machine.HALT);
else cs.emit(Machine.RET);
}

Are you sure you're running initKeywords() before isIdent()?

Either keywords or t is null. Using either a debugger or print statements it should be pretty simple to determine. If keywords is null, I'd assume that initKeywords() has not been called yet.

You probably want to call initKeywords from the constructor of this object.

I personally try to stay away from init methods. As previously mentioned, a constructor serves as an initializer, and so does the static block:
private final static Set<String> KEYWORDS = new HashSet<String>();
static {
keywords.add("final");
keywords.add("int");
keywords.add("while");
keywords.add("if");
keywords.add("else");
keywords.add("print");
}

Java toString() using reflection?

I was writing a toString() for a class in Java the other day by manually writing out each element of the class to a String and it occurred to me that using reflection it might be possible to create a generic toString() method that could work on ALL classes. I.E. it would figure out the field names and values and send them out to a String.
Getting the field names is fairly simple, here is what a co-worker came up with:
public static List initFieldArray(String className) throws ClassNotFoundException {
Class c = Class.forName(className);
Field field[] = c.getFields();
List<String> classFields = new ArrayList(field.length);
for (int i = 0; i < field.length; i++) {
String cf = field[i].toString();
classFields.add(cf.substring(cf.lastIndexOf(".") + 1));
}
return classFields;
}
Using a factory I could reduce the performance overhead by storing the fields once, the first time the toString() is called. However finding the values could be a lot more expensive.
Due to the performance of reflection this may be more hypothetical then practical. But I am interested in the idea of reflection and how I can use it to improve my everyday programming.

Apache commons-lang ReflectionToStringBuilder does this for you.
import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.ReflectionToStringBuilder
// your code goes here
public String toString() {
return ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString(this);
}

Another option, if you are ok with JSON, is Google's GSON library.
public String toString() {
return new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create().toJson(this);
}
It's going to do the reflection for you. This produces a nice, easy to read JSON file. Easy-to-read being relative, non tech folks might find the JSON intimidating.
You could make the GSONBuilder a member variable too, if you don't want to new it up every time.
If you have data that can't be printed (like a stream) or data you just don't want to print, you can just add #Expose tags to the attributes you want to print and then use the following line.
new GsonBuilder()
.setPrettyPrinting()
.excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation()
.create()
.toJson(this);

W/reflection, as I hadn't been aware of the apache library:
(be aware that if you do this you'll probably need to deal with subobjects and make sure they print properly - in particular, arrays won't show you anything useful)
#Override
public String toString()
{
StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder("[");
for (Field f : getClass().getFields())
{
if (!isStaticField(f))
{
try
{
b.append(f.getName() + "=" + f.get(this) + " ");
} catch (IllegalAccessException e)
{
// pass, don't print
}
}
}
b.append(']');
return b.toString();
}
private boolean isStaticField(Field f)
{
return Modifier.isStatic(f.getModifiers());
}

If you're using Eclipse, you may also have a look at JUtils toString generator, which does it statically (generating the method in your source code).

You can use already implemented libraries, as ReflectionToStringBuilder from Apache commons-lang. As was mentioned.
Or write smt similar by yourself with reflection API.
Here is some example:
class UniversalAnalyzer {
private ArrayList<Object> visited = new ArrayList<Object>();
/**
* Converts an object to a string representation that lists all fields.
* #param obj an object
* #return a string with the object's class name and all field names and
* values
*/
public String toString(Object obj) {
if (obj == null) return "null";
if (visited.contains(obj)) return "...";
visited.add(obj);
Class cl = obj.getClass();
if (cl == String.class) return (String) obj;
if (cl.isArray()) {
String r = cl.getComponentType() + "[]{";
for (int i = 0; i < Array.getLength(obj); i++) {
if (i > 0) r += ",";
Object val = Array.get(obj, i);
if (cl.getComponentType().isPrimitive()) r += val;
else r += toString(val);
}
return r + "}";
}
String r = cl.getName();
// inspect the fields of this class and all superclasses
do {
r += "[";
Field[] fields = cl.getDeclaredFields();
AccessibleObject.setAccessible(fields, true);
// get the names and values of all fields
for (Field f : fields) {
if (!Modifier.isStatic(f.getModifiers())) {
if (!r.endsWith("[")) r += ",";
r += f.getName() + "=";
try {
Class t = f.getType();
Object val = f.get(obj);
if (t.isPrimitive()) r += val;
else r += toString(val);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
r += "]";
cl = cl.getSuperclass();
} while (cl != null);
return r;
}
}

Not reflection, but I had a look at generating the toString method (along with equals/hashCode) as a post-compilation step using bytecode manipulation. Results were mixed.

Here is the Netbeans equivalent to Olivier's answer; smart-codegen plugin for Netbeans.