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Dictionary app using Oxford Dictionary API

I am trying to make a dictionary application using Oxford Dictionary api. There is something wrong with my code JSON. Can anyone tell me how do I extract only the definition of the searched word, rather getting the whole JSON file
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import com.squareup.okhttp.Callback;
import com.squareup.okhttp.OkHttpClient;
import com.squareup.okhttp.Request;
import com.squareup.okhttp.Response;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private static final String APP_ID= "59028fc6";
private static final String API_KEY = "ad3e310307d7b2f8bf474c45e1efd01f";
private static final String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName();
private OkHttpClient okHttpClient;
private EditText textInput;
private Button submitButton;
private TextView definitionView;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
// initialize ok http
okHttpClient = new OkHttpClient();
textInput = findViewById(R.id.textInput);
submitButton = findViewById(R.id.submitButton);
definitionView = findViewById(R.id.textMeaning);
submitButton.setOnClickListener(
new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
findMeaningOfEnteredWord();
}
});
}
private void findMeaningOfEnteredWord() {
String word = textInput.getText().toString();
if (word.isEmpty()) {
Toast.makeText(this, "Nothing entered", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return;
}
// create url from the word
String lowerCaseWord = word.toLowerCase();
String httpRequestUrl = "https://od-api.oxforddictionaries.com:443/api/v1/entries/en/" + lowerCaseWord;
// make request with REST url
new RequestAsyncTask().execute(httpRequestUrl);
}
private class RequestAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<String, Integer, String> {
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
String requestUrl = params[0];
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url(requestUrl)
.addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
.addHeader("app_id", APP_ID)
.addHeader("app_key", API_KEY)
.build();
Response response = null;
try {
response = okHttpClient.newCall(request).execute();
return response.body().string();
} catch (IOException ex) {
Log.e(TAG, "caught error: " + ex.getMessage());
}
return "";
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
try {
JSONObject responseAsJson = new JSONObject(result);
JSONArray results = responseAsJson.getJSONArray("results");
if (results.length() > 0) { // valid definitions were found
String lexicalEntries = results.getJSONObject(0).getString("lexicalEntries");
definitionView.setText(lexicalEntries);
}
Log.d(TAG, " " + responseAsJson.toString());
} catch (Exception ex) {
Log.d(TAG, "exception during json parsing: " + ex.getMessage());
}
}
}
}
JSON:
{"id":"aeroplane",
"language":"en",
"lexicalEntries": [
{
"entries": [{"etymologies":["late 19th century: from French aéroplane, from aéro- ‘air’ + Greek -planos ‘wandering’"],
"grammaticalFeatures":[{"text":"Singular","type":"Number"}],
"homographNumber":"000",
"senses":[{"crossReferenceMarkers":["North American term airplane"],
"crossReferences":[{"id":"airplane","text":"airplane","type":"see also"}],
"definitions":["a powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces."],
"domains":["Aviation"],
"id":"m_en_gbus0013220.005",
"regions":["British"],
"short_definitions":["powered flying vehicle with fixed wings"],
"thesaurusLinks":[{"entry_id":"plane","sense_id":"t_en_gb0011151.001"}]}]}],"language":"en","lexicalCategory":"Noun","pronunciations":[{"audioFile":"http:\/\/audio.oxforddictionaries.com\/en\/mp3\/aeroplane_gb_2.mp3","dialects":["British English"],"phoneticNotation":"IPA","phoneticSpelling":"ˈɛːrəpleɪn"}],"text":"aeroplane"}],
"type":"headword","word":"aeroplane"
}

Modify these lines :
String lexicalEntries = results.getJSONObject(0).getString("lexicalEntries");
definitionView.setText(lexicalEntries);
to :
String definition = results.getJSONObject(0).getString("lexicalEntries")
.getJSONArray("entries").getJSONObject(0).getJSONArray("senses")
.getJSONObject(0).getJSONArray("definitions").getString(0);
definitionView.setText(definition);
Of course you may need to modify your UI based on the number of definitions a word has.
Also, you should probably consider using POJOs instead of directly dealing with the JSON response.
I'd recommend Jackson or GSON for doing this.

String definitions=results.getJSONArray("lexicalEntries")
.getJSONObject(0)
.getJSONArray("entries")
.getJSONObject(0)
.getJSONArray("senses")
.getJSONArray("definitions")
.get(0)

So , The thing is , There are a lot of gaps in the JSON for different words .
Which means a word may have an array of "synonyms" but others don't , So in your code you are trying to reach something that doesn't actually exist (a NULL value) which is likely to throw an exception every time you search for a word that the JSON returned doesn't match the JSON you are expecting , Because there are missing (NULL) values .
The app I made using oxford dictionary required a lot of work just to make sure there is no thrown exception .
I used retrofit with moshi converter factory , And then Do the following :
1-In your custom classes , Make sure you annotate every data member with
#Json and provide the name of the keys in the JSON of oxford
2-make sure that every declared type is nullable , including both List and the type inside of it
You'll then be able to get the result , And Now comes the part where you handle evey call that may be null
I know this is a bit old question , But It happened that I struggled with this api once , So I hope this may help someone :)

Accessing database on server using android studio

I'm a complete beginner in android programming and am trying to make an app which requires access to the database on local host using the android studio, using the IP address of the server, I've watched many tutorial videos but still am not sure where to pass the IP address of the server.
The server uses MySQL, I've tried using JDBC but still unable to achieve the result.
Here is my code, any help would be appreciated.
`package com.example.vishal.connectiontest;
import java.sql.*;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import static android.R.attr.name;
import static com.example.vishal.connectiontest.DemoClass.main;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
final Button B1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button);
final TextView e1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.HelloWorld);
B1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
try{
String result = main();
e1.setText(result.toString());
}
catch(java.lang.Exception e){
System.out.println("Exception");
}
}
});
}
}
class DemoClass
{
public static String main()throws Exception
{
String url = "jdbc:mysql://125.10.10.214/demo" ;
String uname = "root";
String pass = "";
String ip = "";
String query = "Select UserName from user_info where Id = '90000515'";
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, uname,pass);
Statement st = con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery(query);
rs.next();
String name = rs.getString("UserName");
return (name);
}
}`

Easiest way of integrating Database to your Android Application is using Firebase.
It's really easy to use and other than Database, it has File Storage Services, Cloud Messaging, Analytics and many more.
I would recommend use of firebase database.
Here have a look at it's Documentation:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/

How to make a connection with my ontology?

I created an ontology with Protégé. Then I created an Android interface which contains two edit texts and a button. The main function of my code is to make a connection between my application and the ontology and store these data into it. I use a triple store for storage.
But it didn't work correctly. I'm using Sesame as server but I don't know how to get the correct URL of the "update" service. I might have made other errors but here is my activity's code:
package com.example.ontologie1;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.DatatypeProperty;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.Individual;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntClass;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntModel;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntModelSpec;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Literal;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.ModelFactory;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Property;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private Button buttonconnexion;
private EditText editpseudo;
private EditText editpassword;
public String ps;
public String pa;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
editpseudo = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.welcomeedittextlogin);
editpassword = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.welcomeedittextpassword);
buttonconnexion = (Button) findViewById(R.id.welcomebuttonconnexion);
buttonconnexion.setOnClickListener(click1);
}
protected OnClickListener click1 = new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View arg0) {
ps= editpseudo.getText().toString();
pa= editpassword.getText().toString();
try {
connexion(ps , pa);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
protected void connexion(String pseudo,String password) throws IOException {
String requete = "<http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .\n"
+ "INSERT DATA {\n"
+ " <http://www.owl-ontologies.com/Ontology_profile.owl#USER> a onto:USER;\n"
+ " onto:Login " + pseudo + ";\n"
+ " onto:Password " + password + ";\n"
+ "}";
PostMethod post = new PostMethod("<http://www.openrdf.org/config/repository#>");
NameValuePair[] paramRequete = {
new NameValuePair("query", requete),
};
post.setRequestBody(paramRequete);
InputStream in = post.getResponseBodyAsStream();
Toast t = null ;
t.setText(in.toString());
t=new Toast(null);
}
}

I don't have experience with Android programming, but there are some issues that suggest you need to rethink your goals.
An ontology is not a database. You don't store data in an ontology, and you don't need an ontology to store data in a triplestore.
To store data in a triplestore (using SPARQL), your triplestore needs a SPARQL endpoint. That endpoint has a URI that you send your POST or GET request to. If you installed Sesame on your local machine, that URI may look like http://localhost:8080/sparql. If you want to insert data, the triplestore needs to allow that.
You also need a valid SPARQL query, which your requete is not. The first line,
<http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
is not complete. Usually there are PREFIXes on the first lines of a SPARQL query, but they don't end with a .. For example:
PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
To use the prefix onto: as you do, you need to define it in the same way. For a complete SPARQL tutorial, see this.
Also, the lines
Toast t = null ;
t.setText(in.toString());
t=new Toast(null);
will generate a NullPointerException, as you call a method on t that is null.

Parsing a text file using Jsoup

I have a Continent.txt file placed in my res/raw folder. Inside it contains the following.
<div class="continents">
US
Canada
Europe
</div>
I am able to parse the text US, Canada, Europe using jsoup, but when I display them to a TextView, they show up in one line. The output looks like this.
US Canada Europe
I want the ouput to be like this.
US
Canada
Europe
This is my code.
package com.example.readfile;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
TextView txtContinent;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
txtContinent = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
new MyTask().execute();
}
class MyTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, ArrayList<String>> {
ArrayList<String> arr_linkText = new ArrayList<String>();
#Override
protected ArrayList<String> doInBackground(Void... params) {
Document doc;
try {
Resources res = getResources();
InputStream in_s = res.openRawResource(R.raw.continent);
byte[] b = new byte[in_s.available()];
in_s.read(b);
doc = Jsoup.parse(new String(b));
Element link = doc.select("a").first();
String text = doc.body().text();
arr_linkText.add(text);
} catch (Exception e) {
// e.printStackTrace();
txtContinent.setText("Error: can't open file.");
}
return arr_linkText; // << retrun ArrayList from here
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(ArrayList<String> result) {
for (String temp_result : result) {
txtContinent.append(temp_result + "\n");
}
}
}
}
I do not know how to read the file line by line, I hope someone can illustrate it to me. Thank you!

You are taking the text of the entire body of the document at once. You need to parse it out by each element, like so
Elements links = doc.select("a");
for (Element link : links) {
arr_linkText.add(link.text());
}
in case it wasn't clear, the above code is meant to replace the following --
Element link = doc.select("a").first();
String text = doc.body().text();
arr_linkText.add(text);

Have you set android:inputType to include textMultiLine?

How to read data from a Google spreadsheet for an Android app

I have a public google spreadsheet with some data in tables.
I'm developing an Android app which I want it to read these tables and then make a listview with the fields on the spreadsheet.
Which will be the best way to do that?

You can use the code of James Moore: http://blog.restphone.com/2011/05/very-simple-google-spreadsheet-code.html.
package com.banshee;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import com.google.gdata.client.spreadsheet.SpreadsheetService;
import com.google.gdata.data.spreadsheet.CustomElementCollection;
import com.google.gdata.data.spreadsheet.ListEntry;
import com.google.gdata.data.spreadsheet.ListFeed;
import com.google.gdata.util.ServiceException;
public class SpreadsheetSucker {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpreadsheetService service = new SpreadsheetService("com.banshee");
try {
// Notice that the url ends
// with default/public/values.
// That wasn't obvious (at least to me)
// from the documentation.
String urlString = "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AsaDhyyXNaFSdDJ2VUxtVGVWN1Yza1loU1RPVVU3OFE/default/public/values";
// turn the string into a URL
URL url = new URL(urlString);
// You could substitute a cell feed here in place of
// the list feed
ListFeed feed = service.getFeed(url, ListFeed.class);
for (ListEntry entry : feed.getEntries()) {
CustomElementCollection elements = entry.getCustomElements();
String name = elements.getValue("name");
System.out.println(name);
String number = elements.getValue("Number");
System.out.println(number);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ServiceException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

I have developed a client Lib for SpreadSheet which works on Android. Please try-
http://code.google.com/p/google-spreadsheet-lib-android/
hope it helps.
Cheers,
Prasanta