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Parse Json data into a Json object

I have a problem with parsing a tag inside a Json object.
My json code is structured like that:
{"giocatori":[{"nome":"Giovanni","cognome":"Muchacha","numero":"1","ruolo":"F-G"},
{"nome":"Giorgio","cognome":"Rossi","numero":"2","ruolo":"AG"},
{"nome":"Andrea","cognome":"Suagoloso","numero":"3","ruolo":"P"},
{"nome":"Salvatore","cognome":"Aranzulla","numero":"4","ruolo":"G"},
{"nome":"Giulio","cognome":"Muchacha","numero":"5","ruolo":"F"}]}
I got the code that let me get the Json file from here: Get JSON Data from URL Using Android? and I'm trying to parse a tag (for example the "nome" tag) into a Json object.
This is the code I got:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
Button btnHit;
TextView txtJson;
ProgressDialog pd;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
btnHit = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnHit);
txtJson = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvJsonItem);
btnHit.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
new JsonTask().execute("https://api.myjson.com/bins/177dpo");
}
});
}
private class JsonTask extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
pd = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
pd.setMessage("Please wait");
pd.setCancelable(false);
pd.show();
}
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
HttpURLConnection connection = null;
BufferedReader reader = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(params[0]);
connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.connect();
InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
buffer.append(line+"\n");
Log.d("Response: ", "> " + line);
}
return buffer.toString();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (connection != null) {
connection.disconnect();
}
try {
if (reader != null) {
reader.close();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return null;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
if (pd.isShowing()){
pd.dismiss();
}
txtJson.setText(result);
}
}
}
I've never worked with this type of file so I'll really appreciate your help!

You can use something like this:
try {
String servResponse = response.toString();
JSONObject parentObj = new JSONObject(servResponse);
JSONArray parentArray = parentObj.getJSONArray("giocatori");
if (parentArray.length() == 0) {
//if it's empty, do something (or not)
} else {
//Here, finalObj will have your jsonObject
JSONObject finalObj = parentArray.getJSONObject(0);
//if you decide to store some value of the object, you can do like this (i've created a nomeGiocatori for example)
nomeGiocatori = finalObj.getString("nome");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d("Exception: ", "UnknownException");
}
I use this kind of code all the time, works like a charm.

How to get Jsonobject readable to textview?

I am so beginner about Json. I am trying to understand example on the internet. So that I am doing a translater for myself(Yandex translater). But I have problem I copied and pasted source cod to my project. To making When I clicked my button , Text will be my textview(being translated) Now I cannot get translated string for my textview.How can I get it ?
My TranslatorBackgroundTask AsyncTask (it is not inner class) :
TranslatorBackgroundTask(Context ctx){
this.ctx = ctx;
}
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
//String variables
String textToBeTranslated = params[0];
String languagePair = params[1];
String jsonString;
try {
//Set up the translation call URL
String yandexKey =
String yandexUrl = "https://translate.yandex.net/api/v1.5/tr.json/translate?key=" + yandexKey
+ "&text=" + textToBeTranslated + "&lang=" + languagePair;
URL yandexTranslateURL = new URL(yandexUrl);
//Set Http Conncection, Input Stream, and Buffered Reader
HttpURLConnection httpJsonConnection = (HttpURLConnection) yandexTranslateURL.openConnection();
InputStream inputStream = httpJsonConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
//Set string builder and insert retrieved JSON result into it
StringBuilder jsonStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
while ((jsonString = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
jsonStringBuilder.append(jsonString + "\n");
}
//Close and disconnect
bufferedReader.close();
inputStream.close();
httpJsonConnection.disconnect();
//Making result human readable
String resultString = jsonStringBuilder.toString().trim();
//Getting the characters between [ and ]
resultString = resultString.substring(resultString.indexOf('[')+1);
resultString = resultString.substring(0,resultString.indexOf("]"));
//Getting the characters between " and "
resultString = resultString.substring(resultString.indexOf("\"")+1);
resultString = resultString.substring(0,resultString.indexOf("\""));
Log.d("Translation Result:", resultString);
return jsonStringBuilder.toString().trim() ;
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
}
#Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
super.onProgressUpdate(values);
}
My MainActivity :
cevir_button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
String yazı_string = yazı_EditText.getText().toString();
// trans(yazı_string,language);
String languagePair = "en-fr";
Translate(yazı_string,languagePair);
}
});
private void Translate(String textToBeTranslated, String languagePair) {
TranslatorBackgroundTask translatorBackgroundTask= new TranslatorBackgroundTask(context);
AsyncTask<String, Void, String> translationResult = translatorBackgroundTask.execute(textToBeTranslated,languagePair);
try {
String translationResults = translatorBackgroundTask.execute(textToBeTranslated, languagePair).get();
cevirilmis_tTextView.setText(translationResults);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ExecutionException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Log.d("Translation Result", String.valueOf(translationResult));
}

You could simply get the string from the AsyncTask:
String translationResult = translatorBackgroundTask.execute(textToBeTranslated, languagePair).get();
However this approach defeats the point of using an AsyncTask as you will end up blocking the UI thread as you wait for the result from .get(). Instead you should use a callback like this

RecyclerView Pagination not maintaining Scroll Position

I am a newbie in android and I've been working around pagination with recyclercview. I am receiving my data from a server(running php) and returning it in a JSON format which brings the data in bunches like 1-10, 11-20... so on. I call notifyDataSetChanged with this. But the problem is recyclerview scrolls back to the top when retrieving more data instead of retaining the current position. How do I go about this?
When scrollbar gets to the bottom, it triggers the asynctask
AsynTask:
public class LoadRecharge extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {
private boolean socketTimeout = false;
Context context;
public static final String TAG = "custom_message";
public AsyncResponse delegate = null;
private String server_url = "https://blockgator.com/mobile/endless.php";
public LoadRecharge(Context ctxt, AsyncResponse asyncResponse) {
delegate = asyncResponse;
context = ctxt;
}
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
if (connectGoogle()) {
String post_data = "";
try {
URL url = new URL(server_url);
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
OutputStream outputStream = httpURLConnection.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, "UTF-8"));
post_data = URLEncoder.encode("page", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(params[0], "UTF-8");
bufferedWriter.write(post_data);
bufferedWriter.flush();
outputStream.close();
InputStream inputStream = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "iso-8859-1"));
String result = "";
String line = "";
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
result += line;
}
bufferedReader.close();
inputStream.close();
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
return result;
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, "error: " + e.getMessage());
}
} else {
this.socketTimeout = true;
}
return null;
}
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
arr.add(null);
scrollAdapter.notifyItemInserted(arr.size() - 1);
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
arr.remove(arr.size() - 1);
scrollAdapter.notifyItemRemoved(arr.size());
if (this.socketTimeout) {
Toast.makeText(context, "unable to connect to server", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else {
delegate.processFinish(result);
}
}
public boolean connectGoogle() {
try {
HttpURLConnection urlc = (HttpURLConnection) (new URL("http://www.google.com").openConnection());
urlc.setConnectTimeout(3000);
urlc.connect();
return (urlc.getResponseCode() == 200);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
}
}
#Override
public void processFinish(String output) {
try {
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(output);
if (jsonObject.get("status").toString().equals("success")) {
JSONArray jsonarr = jsonObject.getJSONArray("data");
String columns[] = {"id", "bill_amount", "bill_price", "variation"};
for (int i = 0; i < jsonarr.length(); i++) {
ArrayList<String> temp = new ArrayList<>();
for (String column : columns) {
temp.add(jsonarr.getJSONObject(i).getString(column));
}
arr.add(temp);
setAdapter(arr);
}
} else if (jsonObject.get("status").toString().equals("end")) {
total = "end";
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
Toast.makeText(this, "exception from json", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
Toast.makeText(this, "Unable to connect to server...", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Toast.makeText(this, "Null from json", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
public void setAdapter(ArrayList<ArrayList<String>> arr) {
recycler.setAdapter(scrollAdapter);
scrollAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
scrollAdapter.setLoading();
scrollAdapter.setOnItemClickListener(this);
scrollAdapter.setOnLoadMoreListener(this);
}

Remove this line recycler.setAdapter(scrollAdapter); You need to set your adapter just once either in Activity's onCreate method or Fragment's onCreateView method.

In setAdapter() you dont need to do recycler.setAdapter(scrollAdapter); again, just do it at the beginning
I do something similar, but reversed, working as chat
messages.addAll(0, oldMessages);
mAdapter.notifyItemRangeInserted(0, oldMessages.size());
mAdapter.notifyItemChanged(oldMessages.size());
mAdapter.setLoaded();
Im adding the old messages of the char to the messages.
Then notifing the adapter I have updated the source
I uses the 0 to put at the beginning

Asynctask android return contents "doinBackground

I would like to retrieve the contents of my variable "$content" in my activity.
But I don't know how to use the return value of my doinbackground.
Can you help me ?
thank you in advance
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
String restURL = "https://proxyepn-test.epnbn.net/wsapi/epn";
RestOperation test = new RestOperation();
test.execute(restURL);
}
private class RestOperation extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
//final HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
String content;
String error;
ProgressDialog progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
String data = "";
TextView serverDataReceived = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.serverDataReceived);
TextView showParsedJSON = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.showParsedJSON);
// EditText userinput = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.userinput);
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
progressDialog.setTitle("Please wait ...");
progressDialog.show();
}
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
BufferedReader br = null;
URL url;
try {
url = new URL(params[0]);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWr = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
outputStreamWr.write(data);
outputStreamWr.flush();
br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while((line = br.readLine())!=null) {
sb.append(line);
sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
}
content = sb.toString();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
error = e.getMessage();
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
error = e.getMessage();
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
br.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return content;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
progressDialog.dismiss();
if(error!=null) {
serverDataReceived.setText("Error " + error);
} else {
serverDataReceived.setText(content);
String output = "";
JSONObject jsonResponse;
try {
jsonResponse = new JSONObject(content);
JSONArray jsonArray = jsonResponse.names();
for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
JSONObject child = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
String name = child.getString("name");
String number = child.getString("number");
String time = child.getString("date_added");
output = "Name = " + name + System.getProperty("line.separator") + number + System.getProperty("line.separator") + time;
output += System.getProperty("line.separator");
Log.i("content",content);
}
showParsedJSON.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
showParsedJSON.setText(output);
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
}

You can directly call to the method which exist in activity, from onPostExecute method of asynctask by passing "content" value.
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String content) {
Activity.yourMethod(content);
}
If you want to return the value from asynctask you can use
content = test.execute(url).get();
but it is not a good practice of asynctask, because it is working as serial execution. So it is not fulfill the use of asynctask for palatalization.Because get() will block the UI thread.

How to avoid force close application in Android

I've tried searching the internet for solution unfortunately I could not find the answer. I tried using try catch to catch error exception but still it won't work.
Here's my code. I have private class LoginTask
private class LoginTask extends AsyncTask<String,String,JSONObject> {
private String[] privateCredentials;
private String privateRequest;
private String errorMessage = "";
//initialize all here
//constructor
LoginTask(String[] credentials,String request) {
this.privateRequest = request;
this.privateCredentials = credentials;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
if(this.privateRequest=="login"){
try {
String response = result.getString("status");
if(response.equals("ok")){
onLoginSuccess(result.getString("username"),result.getString("full_name"),result.getInt("user_id"));
}else{
onLoginFails();
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
if(errorMessage!=""){
Toast ts;
ts = Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this,errorMessage,Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
ts.show();
}
//e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
#Override
protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... params) {
String result = "";
JSONObject resultObj = null;
HttpURLConnection con = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
JSONObject cred = new JSONObject();
if(this.privateRequest=="login"){
try {
cred.put("username", this.privateCredentials[0]);
cred.put("password", this.privateCredentials[1]);
URL url = new URL(params[0]);
con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
;
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setDoInput(true);
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.connect();
OutputStream outputStream = con.getOutputStream();
outputStream.write(cred.toString().getBytes());
InputStream stream = con.getInputStream();
br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
buffer.append(line);
}
//get the result
JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(buffer.toString());
resultObj = jsonObj;
// return buffer.toString();
}catch (JSONException e) {
errorMessage = e.getMessage();
final String error = e.getMessage();
//e.printStackTrace();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable(){
public void run() {
//ErrorDialog(e.getMessage());
Toast ts;
ts = Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this,error,Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
ts.show();
}
});
} catch (ProtocolException e) {
errorMessage = e.getMessage();
final String error = e.getMessage();
//e.printStackTrace();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable(){
public void run() {
//ErrorDialog(e.getMessage());
Toast ts;
ts = Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this,error,Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
ts.show();
}
});
//e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
errorMessage = e.getMessage();
final String error = e.getMessage();
//e.printStackTrace();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable(){
public void run() {
//ErrorDialog(e.getMessage());
Toast ts;
ts = Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this,error,Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
ts.show();
}
});
//e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if(con!=null) {
con.disconnect();
}
}
return resultObj;
}
return null;
}
}
And here's my event listener code in the login activity.
//when clicking the login button
loginBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
//do now the login process
userText.setVisibility(view.INVISIBLE);
passwordText.setVisibility(view.INVISIBLE);
tvRegister.setVisibility(view.INVISIBLE);
umlogo.setVisibility(view.INVISIBLE);
//set textviews to invisible
/* tv[0].setVisibility(view.INVISIBLE);
tv[1].setVisibility(view.INVISIBLE);*/
//set also the button to invisible
loginBtn.setVisibility(view.INVISIBLE);
//set visible the progress bar
pb.setVisibility(view.VISIBLE);
//set now the user login credentials
credentials[0] = userText.getText().toString();
credentials[1] = passwordText.getText().toString();
loginTask = new LoginTask(credentials,"login");
//loginTask.execute("http://10.0.2.2/sampleRequest.php");
//loginTask.execute("http://10.0.2.2/motorpool_june_2016_laravel/public/mobile/login");
loginTask.execute("http://128.199.105.49/mobile/login");
//SessionHolder.login(credentials, la);
}
});
However it is still not working. Please help. :(

You can't compare Strings with == in java. You must write it like below:
if(this.privateRequest.equals("login")){
== tests for reference equality (whether they are the same object)