I'm trying to let my users be able to report small errors my android application automatically catches to my server. It's nothing big, just a small text box and send button.
It's supposed to send 3 strings (error, optional user description, and time) to a file on my website made specifically to capture those errors. The thing is, I have absolutely no idea how to do so. I only know how to let my application read info from my website but not the other way around.
Do I have to have a special script on my website? Are JSON Strings necessary? I need the string to be saved there. (Not temporarily)
I'm a bit of a newbie so any help is appreciated. Thanks!
- There has to be a script running on your server, eg: php script.
- Its actually a web-service published on the server so that a client can access it.
- Then you will need to do a HTTP Post to the Server, its better to use NameValuePair along with it to send the data.
This is my code for doing HTTP POST:
public String postData(String url, String xmlQuery) {
final String urlStr = url;
final String xmlStr = xmlQuery;
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
Thread t1 = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
HttpClient httpclient = MySSLSocketFactory.getNewHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(urlStr);
try {
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(
1);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("xml", xmlStr));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
Log.d("Vivek", response.toString());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream i = entity.getContent();
Log.d("Vivek", i.toString());
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(i);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
String s = null;
while ((s = br.readLine()) != null) {
Log.d("YumZing", s);
sb.append(s);
}
Log.d("Check Now", sb + "");
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} /*
* catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { // TODO
* Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch
* (SAXException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block
* e.printStackTrace(); }
*/
}
});
t1.start();
try {
t1.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Getting from Post Data Method " + sb.toString());
return sb.toString();
}
//////////////////////////// Edited Part ///////////////////////////////////
Server side php code:
<?php
require_once(ROOT.'/lab/lib/xyz_api_int.php');
try {
//setup the sdk
$api = YumzingApiInt::_get(
Config::get('api_int','url'),
Config::get('api_int','key'),
Config::get('api_int','secret')
);
//connect to the api
$api->connect();
//check our token
echo $api->getToken();
} catch(Exception $e){
sysError($e->getMessage());
}
You just need to post values by http to a php script on your server that will save those values in your file or a database.
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I'm trying to send and receive data between android app and server using JSON but unfortunately i am unable to do it i searched a lot but it didn't help. My code is as follows:
In android
try {
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
jsonObject.put("fromDate", from);
jsonObject.put("toDate", to);
jsonObject.put("reason", reas);
new SendData().execute(jsonObject);
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
and then my asynctask's doInBackground method
try {
HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParams,
CmsInter.TIMEOUT);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParams, CmsInter.TIMEOUT);
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParams);
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(getResources().getString(
R.string.URL));
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(object.toString());
se.setContentType(new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE,
"application/json"));
httpPost.setEntity(se);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpPost);
message = Sync.convertResponseToString(response);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
message = e.toString();
}
and then on server side within the doPost() method of servlet code is as follows :
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
try {
BufferedReader reader = request.getReader();
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
sb.append(line);
} catch (Exception e) { /* report an error */
e.printStackTrace();
}
String str = sb.toString();
try {
org.json.JSONObject json = new org.json.JSONObject(str);
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
and I think this is not the right way to read JSONObject on the server side because when I run this I get org.json.JSONException: A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 1 exception , Can anyone please help me out in this. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Finally got it this line was wrong object.toString() while sending it should have been object[0].toString() because asynctask's doInBackground methods parameter is an array i.e. protected String doInBackground(JSONObject... object).
I'm building an android application where I have to read a big chunk of information from a server.
The server sends the information as a JSONArray and everything is fine on the server side.
However the problem comes when I'm trying to receive this JSONArray as it seems to be too large for me to receive?
I connect to the server using HttpClient like this:
HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
int timeoutConnection = 20000;
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParams, timeoutConnection);
int timeoutSocket = 20000;
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParams, timeoutSocket);
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParams);
HttpGet request = new HttpGet();
request.setURI(url);
HttpResponse response = null;
try {
response = client.execute(request);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
BufferedReader in = null;
if (response != null) {
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()), 100000);
}
return in;
And I simply try to read what's in the BufferedReader with the readLine() method, however what I get back is not the full content of the response. I know this because I tried accessing the same content with a web browser and it returns the full content.
The response from the server is on a single line (might affect it, I don't know)
I'm able to read 4kb and I need to read a whopping 141kb (so I'm far off)..
My personal guess is that somewhere in my code there is a size limit.
Extra I read from the BufferedReader like this:
BufferedReader in = getResponse(new URI(params[0]));
// Read from the received buffer
String s;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(10000);
if(in != null){
while ((s = in.readLine()) != null){
sb.append(s);
}
}
Log.d("Problem: ", sb.toString());
EDIT: The response does not differ, it's always the same length
EDIT2: It seems that it was Log.d() that had a limit in print length! There was no problem to begin with... sorry!
Use Gzipped JSON in HTTP Request
Checkout this article: http://arnab.ch/blog/2012/09/android-how-to-send-gzipped-json-in-http-request/
Instead of reading the InputStream just directly convert it to String using EntityUtils.toString
example:
try {
response = client.execute(request);
HttpEntity resEntityGet = responseGet.getEntity();
final String result = EntityUtils.toString(resEntityGet); //result is your json response
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
I am having problems calling a simple JSON web service from an Android app. The .execute() completes successfully with an 200-OK Status however I am unable to read any JSON output or text.
For the record, if I HttpPost a regular webpage, like Google.com, I can read and parse all the markup. Also, I am able to call the complete urlWithParams string from the device's browser and I see JSON output in the browser. This works in device's browser:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=Seattle&destinations=San+Francisco&mode=bicycling&language=fr-FR&sensor=false
When the code runs, the reader is always blank and reader.readLine() never runs. Returns an empty string. If I change the URL to Google.com, it works and returns 17,000 characters. Thanks!
protected String doInBackground(String... uri) {
String responseString = null;
try {
//String urlGoogle = "http://google.com";
//String urlWithParams = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=Seattle&destinations=San+Francisco&mode=bicycling&language=fr-FR&sensor=false";
String urlOnly = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json";
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(urlOnly);
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("origins", "Seattle"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("destinations", "Cleveland"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("sensor", "false"));
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
int status = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream is = entity.getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append((line + "\n"));
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
responseString = sb.toString();
}}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return responseString;
}
Maybe you should test other mime types instead of application/json.
1 - Check in your manifest file having INTENET Permission or not.
2 - Use this code its returning data
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
try {
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
responseString += inputLine;
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Solved! The blank return when calling the JSON page was due to not having the proxy settings defined. Proxy settings were setup on the device however per this post, HttpClient does NOT inherit them.
Adding the following line resolved my issue. The code is now returning JSON.
HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("172.21.31.239", 8080);
httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ConnRoutePNames.DEFAULT_PROXY, proxy);
I'm creating an application for our Android devices. The aim of this section is to post a username and password (currently just assigned as a string) to a web service and to receive a login token. When running the code, at the getOutputStream() line, my code terminates and will no progress any further.
I have assigned the android emulator GSM access and also set the proxy and DNS server within Eclipse. I'm not sure where to go with it now!
This is within my onHandleIntent():
protected void onHandleIntent(Intent i) {
try{
HttpURLConnection http_conn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("http://www.XXXXX.com").openConnection();
http_conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
http_conn.setDoInput(true);
http_conn.setDoOutput(true);
http_conn.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
String login = URLEncoder.encode("XXXXX", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("XX", "UTF-8");
login += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("XXXXX", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("XX", "UTF-8");
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(http_conn.getOutputStream());
//TERMINATES HERE
wr.write(login);
wr.flush();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(http_conn.getInputStream()));
String line = rd.toString();
wr.close();
rd.close();
http_conn.disconnect();
}
catch (IOException e){
}
}
This is my first go at java and have only been writing it for a few days so bear with me if I've missed something obvious.
Thanks
If you want to POST something using HTTP, why not use HTTP POST? ;-)
Here is an example snippet:
public void postData() {
// Create a new HttpClient and Post Header
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://www.yoursite.com/script.php");
try {
// Add your data
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("id", "12345"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("stringdata", "AndDev is Cool!"));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
// Execute HTTP Post Request
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
}
}
Source: http://www.androidsnippets.com/executing-a-http-post-request-with-httpclient
This may not be the appropriate answer, but will certainly be helpful to you. I have used this code for sending and receiving the request and reply resp, to a webservice.
This code is working, but will need some Refactoring, as i have used some extra variable, which are not needed.
I have used the NameValuePair here for Post
public String postData(String url, String xmlQuery) {
final String urlStr = url;
final String xmlStr = xmlQuery;
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
Thread t1 = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(urlStr);
try {
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(
1);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("xml", xmlStr));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
Log.d("Vivek", response.toString());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream i = entity.getContent();
Log.d("Vivek", i.toString());
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(i);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
String s = null;
while ((s = br.readLine()) != null) {
Log.d("YumZing", s);
sb.append(s);
}
Log.d("Check Now",sb+"");
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} /*
* catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { // TODO
* Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch
* (SAXException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block
* e.printStackTrace(); }
*/
}
});
t1.start();
try {
t1.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Getting from Post Data Method "+sb.toString());
return sb.toString();
}
String line = rd.toString();
should be
String line = rd.readLine();
that might do the trick. rd.toString() gives you a String representation of your BufferedReader. It does not trigger the HTTP operation. I did not test your code, so there might be other errors as well, this was just the obvious one.
I need to send some data from my Android device to my server. I am doing this through JSON. I have implemented the JSON post on Android, and I am trying to do a mapping on the server side in order to retrieve that data. My problem is that I keep getting an empty string.
Android method used to send JSON:
private void sendJson(final String json, final String URL) {
Thread t = new Thread(){
public void run() {
Looper.prepare(); //For Preparing Message Pool for the child Thread
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(client.getParams(), 10000); //Timeout Limit
try{
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(URL);
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(json);
se.setContentType(new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json"));
post.setEntity(se);
client.execute(post);
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
Looper.loop(); //Loop in the message queue
}
};
t.start();
}
Server-side method:
#RequestMapping(value = "/getLatestCalls", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void getData(#ModelAttribute String json){
//... do something
}
The thing is that in this method my json String is "" every time. I have also tried using #RequestParam but with that it doesn't enter the method anymore. I have also tried with #ModelAttribute("json").
Can someone enlighten me a little here? Thank you in advance.
Here is the solution and it works fine.
server-side
#Controller
public class DataCollector {
#RequestMapping(value = "/clientdatacollector", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public #ResponseBody
void abc(Writer writer, #RequestParam("gpsdata") String gpsJSON) {
try {
// here is your jsonstring ;)
writer.write(gpsJSON.toString());
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
client-side
public static void httptest() {
ArrayList<TravellingData> tdArray = new ArrayList<TravellingData>();
Gson gson = new Gson();
String jsonString = "";
for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
tdArray.add(ObjectCreater.createMockTravellingDataObject());
}
jsonString = gson.toJson(tdArray);
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost post = null;
try {
post = new HttpPost(
"http://localhost:8080/uygulama/clientdatacollector");
} catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
try {
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("gpsdata", jsonString));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = null;
try {
response = client.execute(post);
} catch (HttpException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
response.getEntity().getContent()));
String line = "";
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Try using #RequestBody. It should work.