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Issue with azure cognitive translation services

After getting the following code to work reliably for a month or so, it stopped working reliably a couple of days ago. About half the time it returns a properly translated string and the other half of the time it returns one of the following two messages:
java.io.FileNotFoundException:
https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/sts/v1.0/issueToken
java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host
"api.microsofttranslator.com": No address associated with hostname
The timing of this problem's beginning coincided with the expiration of my free azure cognitive services account however I migrated to a pay-as-you-go account yesterday and the problem continues.
Why is this happening?
static class translateMessageX extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String>
{
//input string array of 3 items
//[0]is the message to be translated
//[1]is the from language i.e. "english"
//[2]is the to language i.e. "spanish"
//[3]"echo" or "received"
String retString;
String inString = null;
String messageType = null;
String URLHolder = ""; //hold the URL here while we are translating the text
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params)
{
inString = params[0];
String from = params[1];
String to = params[2];
messageType = params[3];
int urlStart = inString.indexOf("http");
if (!(urlStart == -1))
{
URLHolder = inString.substring(urlStart);
inString = inString.substring(0, urlStart -1);
}
else
{
URLHolder = "";
}
Integer mesChars = params[0].length();
Integer tCharsLeft = GlobalStuff.getTranslationsFromSP();
if (tCharsLeft > 0)
{
if (tCharsLeft < mesChars) //we charge for both 'echo' and 'received' translations
{
GlobalStuff.updateTranslationInventory(tCharsLeft * -1);
}
else
{
GlobalStuff.updateTranslationInventory(mesChars * -1);
}
GlobalStuff.notifyListeners(this, "#uui", "notused", "notused" );
try
{
Language fromLang = GlobalStuff.getLang(from);
Language toLang = GlobalStuff.getLang(to);
//retString = Translate.execute(inString, fromLang, toLang);
//String debugstr = "look at retStr";
String authenticationUrl = "https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/sts/v1.0/issueToken";
HttpsURLConnection authConn = (HttpsURLConnection) new URL(authenticationUrl).openConnection();
authConn.setRequestMethod("POST");
authConn.setDoOutput(true);
authConn.setRequestProperty("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", GlobalStuff.translateKey);
IOUtils.write("", authConn.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8");
String token = IOUtils.toString(authConn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8");
System.out.println(token);
// Using the access token to build the appid for the request url
String appId = URLEncoder.encode("Bearer "+token, "UTF-8");
String text = URLEncoder.encode(inString, "UTF-8");
String translatorTextApiUrl = String.format("https://api.microsofttranslator.com/v2/http.svc/Translate?appid=%s&text=%s&from=%s&to=%s", appId, text, fromLang, toLang);
HttpsURLConnection translateConn = (HttpsURLConnection) new URL(translatorTextApiUrl).openConnection();
translateConn.setRequestMethod("GET");
translateConn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/xml");
retString = IOUtils.toString(translateConn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8");
String debug = "look at retString";
}
catch (Exception e)
{
retString = e.toString();
}
}
else
{
retString = "OUT OF TRANSLATION CREDITS - " + inString;
}
return retString;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result)
{
//rest of logic should be here??
String debug = "look at result";
String answer = extractTranslation(result);
.. . . .

Host not found looks like a simple connectivity error. These hosts do exist.
You can void the call to the token service by passing the key in the call to api.microsofttranslator.com directly:
https://cognitive.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1815385-api-translator-text-speech-using-the-api-key
That fixes one of the host not found problems, but not the other.
I would recommend though to not embed the key in the client application. It is safer to call the translator service from your own proxy service, where the proxy is able to safely identify your client as your client.

DRM WideVine video not playing from android cast sender application

I am using the following cast receiver
When I connect my android sender to chromecast device, it show a black screen and never plays video.
https://github.com/googlecast/CastReferencePlayer
I'm setting licenseUrl for widevine in receiver as follow:
sampleplayer.CastPlayer.prototype.preloadVideo_ = function(mediaInformation) {
this.log_('preloadVideo_');
var self = this;
var url = mediaInformation.contentId;
var protocolFunc = sampleplayer.getProtocolFunction_(mediaInformation);
if (!protocolFunc) {
this.log_('No protocol found for preload');
return false;
}
var host = new cast.player.api.Host({
'url': url,
'mediaElement': self.mediaElement_
});
host.onError = function() {
self.preloadPlayer_.unload();
self.preloadPlayer_ = null;
self.showPreviewModeMetadata(false);
self.displayPreviewMode_ = false;
self.log_('Error during preload');
};
host.licenseUrl = event.data.customData.licenseUrl;
self.preloadPlayer_ = new cast.player.api.Player(host);
self.preloadPlayer_.preload(protocolFunc(host));
return true;
};
host.licenseUrl = event.data.customData.licenseUrl;
I've hosted it on a https server which is registered on developers console.
I'm passing custom data as licenseUrl in a json object.
The code of my android sender setting media info is below.
private MediaInfo buildMediaInfo() {
MediaMetadata movieMetadata = new MediaMetadata(MediaMetadata.MEDIA_TYPE_MOVIE);
movieMetadata.putString(MediaMetadata.KEY_SUBTITLE, "Subtitle");
movieMetadata.putString(MediaMetadata.KEY_TITLE, "Title");
jsonObj = new JSONObject();
try{
jsonObj.put("licenseUrl","https://wv.test.expressplay.com/hms/wv/rights/?ExpressPlayToken=token-value");
}catch (JSONException e){
Log.e(null,"Failed to add description to the json object", e);
}
/*drmModel.getData().getStreamURL()*/
return new MediaInfo.Builder("https://pathOfMystream.mpd")
.setStreamType(MediaInfo.STREAM_TYPE_BUFFERED)
.setContentType("application/dash+xml")
.setMetadata(movieMetadata)
.setCustomData(jsonObj)
.setStreamDuration(player.getDuration()*1000)
.build();
}
What changes are further required ?
Do I need to edit receiver? If yes, then what edits are needed?
Is the string name in customData "licenseUrl" needs to be
changed?
CORS is enabled on the S3 server which is hosting the video contents.
Please help! I'm stuck here for more than a week.
Thank you.

I figured out that event.data.customData was undefined while connecting from android sender application.
So I used event.data.media.customData
And accessed the key as follow:
if(event.data.media.customData['licenseUrl'] !== null){
console.log('setting license URL from mobile');
host.licenseUrl = event.data.media.customData.licenseUrl;
}

How to configure connection for file transfer using asmack in android?

In My Android application I get xmpp connection initially using server_nm and 5222 port on login and done single chat message send and receive,but at time of file transfer, How I configure connection with proxy_server and 7777 port which use for file transfer?
public class XmppManager {
private static final int packetReplyTimeout = 500; // millis
private String server=server_nm;
private int port=5222;
private ConnectionConfiguration config;
private XMPPConnection connection;
String group_name,userid;
private ChatManager chatManager;
private MessageListener messageListener;
private Handler mHandler;
PacketFilter filter;
Message message;
Context context;
public static boolean IBB_ONLY = (System.getProperty("ibb") != null);//true;
protected static final String STREAM_DATA_FIELD_NAME = "stream-method";
private StreamNegotiator byteStreamTransferManager;
private StreamNegotiator inbandTransferManager;
// constructor
public XmppManager(String server, int port) {
this.server = server;
this.port = port;
}
// to initialize connection
public void init(Context c) throws XMPPException {
System.out.println(String.format(
"Initializing connection to server %1$s port %2$d", server,
port));
SmackConfiguration.setPacketReplyTimeout(50000);
config = new ConnectionConfiguration(server, port);
config.setSASLAuthenticationEnabled(false);
config.setSecurityMode(SecurityMode.disabled);
// group chat invitation
ProviderManager.getInstance().addExtensionProvider("x",
"http://jabber.org/protocol/muc#user",
new GroupChatInvitation.Provider());
// offline msgtime
ProviderManager.getInstance().addExtensionProvider("x",
"jabber:x:delay", new DelayInformationProvider());
//file transfer method
ProviderManager.getInstance().addIQProvider("query","http://jabber.org/protocol/bytestreams", new BytestreamsProvider());
ProviderManager.getInstance().addIQProvider("query","http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#items", new DiscoverItemsProvider());
ProviderManager.getInstance().addIQProvider("query","http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info", new DiscoverInfoProvider());
ProviderManager.getInstance().addIQProvider("si","http://jabber.org/protocol/si", new StreamInitiationProvider());
ProviderManager.getInstance().addIQProvider("open","http://jabber.org/protocol/ibb", new OpenIQProvider());
ProviderManager.getInstance().addIQProvider("close","http://jabber.org/protocol/ibb", new CloseIQProvider());
ProviderManager.getInstance().addExtensionProvider("data","http://jabber.org/protocol/ibb", new DataPacketProvider());
// v-card integration
ProviderManager.getInstance().addIQProvider("vCard", "vcard-temp", new VCardProvider());
connection = new XMPPConnection(config);
connection.connect();
System.out.println("Connected: " + connection.isConnected());
chatManager = connection.getChatManager();
context = c;
Intent i = new Intent(context, MyService.class);
context.startService(i);
}
// login to xmpp server
public void performLogin(String username, String password,String resource)
throws XMPPException {
if (connection != null && connection.isConnected()) {
System.out.println("connection on presence send" + connection.isConnected() + " " + username + " " + password);
connection.login(username, password,resource);
setStatus(true, "Online");
Presence presence = new Presence(Presence.Type.available);
connection.sendPacket(presence);
}
}
//using this code I try to send file
public void sendfileafterresponse(String filenm,String filereceiverid )
{
FileTransferNegotiator.IBB_ONLY = true;
this.setServiceEnabled(connection, true);
FileTransferManager manager = new FileTransferManager(connection);
OutgoingFileTransfer transfer = manager.createOutgoingFileTransfer(filereceiverid + "#chat.bobl.us/" + filereceiverid);
File file = new File(filenm);
try {
System.out.println("file send to" + filenm + filereceiverid);
transfer.sendFile(file, "test_file");
} catch (XMPPException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
while(!transfer.isDone()) {
if(transfer.getStatus().equals(Status.error)) {
System.out.println("ERROR!!! " + transfer.getError());
} else if (transfer.getStatus().equals(Status.cancelled)
|| transfer.getStatus().equals(Status.refused)) {
System.out.println("Cancelled!!! " + transfer.getError());
}
try {
Thread.sleep(1000L);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if(transfer.getStatus().equals(Status.refused) || transfer.getStatus().equals(Status.error)
|| transfer.getStatus().equals(Status.cancelled)){
System.out.println("refused cancelled error " + transfer.getError());
} else {
System.out.println("Success");
}
}
}
}

If you still want to transfer files via smack directly, you basically have too options, as far as I understand the API.
1.
First you can use In Band transmission, that is enabled via
FileTransferNegotiator.IBB_ONLY = true;
This sends your file as base64 encoded message, the same way you are sending a normal message packet.
The second option is to use a streaming proxy. This one is way faster since it does not need to encode / decode the file to base64 but transmitts the data directly. Both devices connnect to the proxy server and share data on this.
To configure a streaming proxy you have to configure it on the server side and add the Providers to your client side connection (this should be done automatically on the latest asmack library).
I configured such a setup using the ejabberd service and mod_proxy65 Mod_proxy65
add to your /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.yml, your ip adress and host should match the service you are using.
host: "proxy1.example.org"
name: "File Transfer Proxy"
ip: "200.150.100.1"
port: 7777
Then allow the firewall to communicate on this port, and you should be good to go.
However, I figured out, that the file transfer only is functional, if both clients are in the presence "available" if any of them is in another state, the sender receives "service- unavailabe" errors.

Don't rely on XMPP file transfer using aSmack/Smack as it is buly. Instead you can create a plugin which will upload files to the server and after successfully uploading the files send the absolute url of the file to the recipient so that he/she can download the file from there.
Hope this works !

Dictionary as query string parameter in SignalR Android Client

C# Code
var querystringData = new Dictionary<string, string>();
querystringData.Add("UserName", LocalSettings.UserName);
querystringData.Add("LoginId", LocalSettings.LoginId);
hubConnection = new HubConnection("http://...", querystringData);
How do I pass the Dictionary as queryString in Android
Platform.loadPlatformComponent( new AndroidPlatformComponent() );
String host = "http://....;
String qs = "";
//Instead of String I want to pass List/Dictionary
HubConnection connection = new HubConnection(host, qs, true, new ConsoleLogger());
HubProxy hub = connection.createHubProxy("calculatorHub");
Referring http://whathecode.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/getting-started-with-the-java-signalr-sdk/ as the base

The C# client basically turns the dictionary you pass to "&{key}={value}" for each KeyValuePair. So you should be able to do the same on your side and pass to the HubConnection ctor as queryString.

Here my code, works perfect
String server = URL + "signalr";
String CONNECTION_QUERYSTRING ="Bearer=" + BaseActivity.getToken(activity).getAccess_token();
HubConnection connection = new HubConnection(server, CONNECTION_QUERYSTRING, false, new Logger() {
#Override
public void log(String message, LogLevel level) {
System.out.println(message);
}
});

Smack API giving error while logging into Tigase Server setup locally

I am currently developing android XMPP client to communicate with the Tigase server setup locally.Before starting development on Android I am writing a simple java code on PC to test connectivity with XMPP server.My XMPP domain is my pc name "mwbn43-1" and administrator username and passwords are admin and tigase respectively.
Following is the snippet of the code I am using
class Test {
public static void main(String args[])throws Exception
{
System.setProperty("smack.debugEnabled", "true");
XMPPConnection.DEBUG_ENABLED = true;
ConnectionConfiguration config = new ConnectionConfiguration("mwbn43-1", 5222);
config.setCompressionEnabled(true);
config.setSASLAuthenticationEnabled(true);
XMPPConnection con = new XMPPConnection(config);
// Connect to the server
con.connect();
con.login("admin", "tigase");
Chat chat = con.getChatManager().createChat("aaphadke#mwbn43-1",
new MessageListener() {
public void processMessage(Chat chat, Message message) {
// Print out any messages we get back to standard out.
System.out.println("Received message: " + message);
}
});
try {
chat.sendMessage("Hi!");
}
catch (XMPPException e) {
System.out.println("Error Delivering block");
}
String host = con.getHost();
String user = con.getUser();
String id = con.getConnectionID();
int port = con.getPort();
boolean i = false;
i = con.isConnected();
if (i)
System.out.println("Connected to host " + host + " via port " + port + " connection id is " + id);
System.out.println("User is " + user);
con.disconnect();
}
}
When I run this code I get following error
Exception in thread "main" Resource binding not offered by server:
at org.jivesoftware.smack.SASLAuthentication.bindResourceAndEstablishSession(SASLAuthenticatio n.java:416) at org.jivesoftware.smack.SASLAuthentication.authenticate(SASLAuthentication.java:331)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.XMPPConnection.login(XMPPConnection.java:395)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.XMPPConnection.login(XMPPConnection.java:349)
at Test.main(Test.java:26)
I found this articles on the same problem but no concrete solution
here
Could anyone please tell me the solution for this problem.I checked the XMPPConnection.java file in the Smack API and it looks the same as given in the link solution.
Thanks,
Ameya

I found the solution to the problem as given in here
These are the lines I should add before I connect to the server
ConnectionConfiguration config = new ConnectionConfiguration("mwbn43-1", 5222);
config.setSASLAuthenticationEnabled(false);
XMPPConnection xmpp = new XMPPConnection(config);
Thanks for all your help

I think this is a problem with library, a bug. It does not handle protocol correctly. Before the user is authenticated there is no point of sending resource bind, hence it is not advertised by the server. The client should not complain about it.