Question

Disclaimer: I’ve went over many examples and read the docs.

This question entails 3 classes. My serialized class, a helper class that handles I/O, and an activity for interfacing.

My serialized class looks something like this:

public class EntityPlayer implements Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = -7671612522335708108L;
String name = "foo";

public EntityPlayer() {
    name = "foo";

}

}

My helper class looks like this (this is where the heavy lifting is done):

public class Main {

static Object loadPlayer(Context c, String name) throws IOException,
        ClassNotFoundException {
    FileInputStream f = c.openFileInput(name);
    ObjectInputStream i = new ObjectInputStream(f);
    Object player = i.readObject();
    i.close();
    return player;
}

static void savePlayer(Context c, String name, EntityPlayer player) throws IOException {
    FileOutputStream f = c.openFileOutput(name, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    ObjectOutputStream o = new ObjectOutputStream(f);
    o.writeObject(player);
    o.flush();
    o.close();
}

}

and then finally, this is how I’m accesing (in a nut shell):

public class DisplayInteract extends Activity implements OnClickListener {

EntityPlayer player = new EntityPlayer();  //by editing this line, my issue was fixed


@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.g_interact);

    player = new EntityPlayer(ID, this);

    try {
        Main.savePlayer(player.name, player);
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }

    try {
        player = (EntityPlayer) Main.loadPlayer("Derp");
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }
}

}

Basically I’m getting a NPE when I make any calls concerning the serialized class after loading it. I know the issue is in the way that I’m saving the file because I can tell that there is no file through the Android file explorer in eclipse. I know the problem also is in how I’m loading the file because (I have no ideal how) I got it to work at one point (it created a file) but I still couldn’t access any of the data without it throwing an NPE (because I wasn’t accessing the class correctly)

Answer 1

You’re not specifying a path where the file should be saved to.
Use the openFileOutput() from Context which will save it to your applications data folder.

FileOutputStream fos = openFileOutput(FILENAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);