make android provide any request to symfony - android

My project is in symfony where I need to get some data from android. So I implemented json encoding on both parts but my web application does not receive the data from android. I found the android is being unable to send data to symfony..
The code for android where the web link is written is as follows:
JSONObject json = jsonParser.getJSONFromUrl("http://external.apostle.digibiz.com/web/app_dev.php/api/test", params);
What is the error ??

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JSON server on Android

I'm new in Android development. I have a lot of file .JSON that I want to take by REST requests in my app. Is there a JSON local server for Android where I can save these file and do some REST requests?
Thanks
Go through with this url :-
https://github.com/typicode/json-server.
I stumbled to and used SyncAdapter and json-server to firebase and I treated android like a web-app
I noticed that the guide used uri and json parsing so I imported my fake rest db.json to firebase and used the link on https://console.firebase.google.com/project/new-firebase-app/database/data
...
final String rest = "https://new-firebase-app.firebaseio.com/people.json";
// Parse the pretend json news feed
String jsonFeed = download(rest);
JSONArray jsonPeople = new JSONArray(jsonFeed);
...
This might help.

Android Calling Django Server With POST Data

someone may asked my question already but I cannot find any suggestions.
I writing an Android app which needs to access my Django server by using HttpsURLConnection then Django server will return a JSON array to Android.
The view function in Django will receive the parameters from request.POST and generate the JSON array then return using HTTPResponse Django method. It does not need any Templates and Forms.
When I call the Django view function from Android, it returns 403 error. I know that it is because the POST data does not contains "csrf_token".
My problem is: How can I get the "csrf_token" and put it into my POST data before I send it to Django? I try disable the CSRF checking by "#csrf_exempt" it can return the correct result to Android app but I would not disable the CSRF checking.
Thanks,
Wilson
You have to send the cookies and also have to send a header 'X-CSRFToken' with csrftoken.
This is what I do (may not be the best way):
Get csrf token via a get request.But first try to see if you get a csrftoken cookie by doing same request on your browser with developer tools. If not, you should use ensure_csrf_cookie decorator
from django.views.decorators.csrf import ensure_csrf_cookie
#ensure_csrf_cookie
def your_view(request):
pass
Now using the same HttpUrlConnection object do this :
String cookieString="";
String csrftoken="";
// The below code can be shortened using for-each loop
List<HttpCookie> cookies=cookieManager.getCookieStore().getCookies();
Iterator<HttpCookie> cookieIterator=cookies.iterator();
while(cookieIterator.hasNext()){
HttpCookie cookie=cookieIterator.next();
cookieString+=cookie.getName()+"="+cookie.getValue()+";";
if(cookie.getName().equals("csrftoken")){
csrftoken=cookie.getValue();
}
}
Add the following to your post request:
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("X-CSRFToken", csrftoken);
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookieString);

How can I interface an Android app with SQL Server?

This is my problem:
I have to make an Android app that recover some data from an existing database situated on a Microsoft SQL Server installation on Windows Server 2003. I don't know so much about server-side programming languages, so I'm searching on the Internet, and I've found that I have to use a Web Service between my app and the ASP Classic page that connect to the database.
I also found that I have to use SOAP to send data to the server with my app, using the ksoap2 library on Android, and I found how to configure it on the client side. But I can't find how to configure the WebService and which format is better for interfacing my app and the ASP Classic page.
It's very easy, actually. All what you need is to create a webservice which will display the results in JSON format. Then you need to run an HTTP request from your Android app in order the get a JSON array containing JSON objects and then you will have your data from your database.
For example: the webservice will have a function written in ASP with a SELECT statement. Before your return the result, you need to encode it in JSON. Check out JSON Encode (MSDN).
The Android app will connect to the web service link and simply retrieve the JSON encoded data. I'll put you in the right way. You just use a snippet like this one to get data from the web service:
AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
client.get("http://yourwebservice.aspx", new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() {
#Override
public void onSuccess(String response) {
JSONArray jarr = new JSONArray(response);
for(int i = 0; i < jarr.length(); ++i) {
JSONObject jobj = jarr.getJSONObject(i);
// Do your things...
}
}
});
Create a RESTful web service in Web API or WCF. Web API will communicate with the database and your Android application with communicate with the web service.

Can I use some Python in the backend for an Android app?

Most of the backend stuff is in PHP which handle JSON request and response flow of data from Android app to backend.
I'd like to start writing Python code to handle the extra features I'm going to add in my app. How can I do that? Do I need to install Django or something like it in the backend? Our webhost does show "Python support". I'm guessing just a couple of Python classes and some helper library files would suffice.
But here's where I'm conceptually stuck:
In Android, on the app, in the user's side, suppose I send all my queries to backend with this function:
//Pseudo code on Android app
getServerResponse()
{
url = " ??? ";
jsondata = {somedata[a:b]};
response = sendData_andGetResponse(jsondata); // suppose this function sens json data and expects a server response.
showResults(response);
//Pseudo code on backend - BackendProcessing.py
def processRequest():
# some processing done here
response = "some_processed_data"
return response
My problem is, what and how do I integrate the backend Python code and the client side Android app code to communicate with each other. What should the URL be in my Android code to pass data from user to backend? How do I link them?
Do I need to specially setup some third party Python API to handle calls from the Android app at the backend? Or can I just do it with simple Python functions and classes with HTTP request and responses coming in for a particular URI?
You can include URL of the backend server in the android code. Define a variable for the URL of your backend server and use Httppost method for communication between backend and frontend.
Details here http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/methods/HttpPost.html
You can do it with simple Python functions and classes with HTTP request and responses coming in for a particular URI. A third party Python API is not necessary.
You can also use Python based web frameworks like Django for the backend.

Send and retrieve Ruby on Rails query?

I don't know anything about Ruby, but I think what I'm trying to do is pretty simple. I have an app that needs to send a url query like this to a heroku database: http://dartmouth.heroku.com/dnd/search.json?query=sebastian, then receive the data that comes back and organize it for the user. How do I send and recieve a query like this?
EDIT: I downloaded Spring and added the rest template jar to my projects build path. I tried using this code:
String url = "http://dartmouth.heroku.com/dnd/" + dataBase + "json?query=" + searchContent;
RestTemplate rstTemplate = new RestTemplate();
PersonList pList = rstTemplate.getForObject(url, PersonList.class);
but "RestTemplate" is not recognized. Did I miss an installation step?
You need to start by making an HTTP request for the data and then parsing the results. I would suggest trying out the Spring Android library to accomplish this: http://www.springsource.org/spring-android
Check out the explanation here: http://mike.bailey.net.au/2011/02/json-with-ruby-and-rails/
You can use a plugin called HttpParty for sending the request. Ruby on rails will interpret the json response by using the json library. The example on the above mentioned page might make things clearer.

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