Question

hey there guys and girls i have this code that saves json as a string representation, i still haveing a little trouble understanding how the entity section works, and need to know how to change my code so that it works, this is the error im getting,

Error saving string java.lang.NumberFormatException: unable to parse '[{"story_name":"Story One"},{"story_name":"Story Two"},{"story_name":"Story Three"},{"story_name":"Story Four"},{"story_name":"Story Five"},{"story_name":"Story Six"}]' as integer

i was getting help from someone last night that almost got me there but still need a little more understanding of how it works and wht i get the parse error here is my full code

    public class MainActivity extends Activity {
String entityString = null;
String storyObj = "";
Object json = null;
HttpEntity entity = null;
InputStream is = null;
Integer responseInteger = null;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);


    //button that saves the file from mySQL
    Button save = (Button) findViewById(R.id.downloadBtn);
    save.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            saveJson();             
        }
    });

    //Button that opens the file from InternalMemory
    Button open = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showBtn);
    open.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            openJson();             
        }
    });


//end of onCreate() 
}


//saveJson pull a JSON file from mySQl server then saves that file in its JSON type eg .json
public void saveJson(){
    TextView test = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.showView);


    try{
        //connects to mySQL
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://10.0.2.2/textures_story_list.php");
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
        //captures the response
        entity = response.getEntity();
        InputStream entityStream = entity.getContent();
        StringBuilder entityStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        byte [] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int bytesReadCount;
        while ((bytesReadCount = entityStream.read(buffer)) > 0)  {
            entityStringBuilder.append(new String(buffer, 0, bytesReadCount));
        }
        entityString = entityStringBuilder.toString();
        responseInteger = Integer.valueOf(entityString);
    }catch(Exception e) {
         Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
    }
    try{
        //is = entity.getContent();
        String FILENAME = "story.json";
        //gives file name
        FileOutputStream output = openFileOutput(FILENAME, MODE_WORLD_READABLE);
        //creates new StreamWriter
        OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(output);
        //writes json with file name story.json
        writer.write(entityString);
        writer.flush();
        //closes writer
        writer.close();

    }catch(Exception e) {
         Log.e("log_tag", "Error saving string "+e.toString());
    }

//end of saveJson()
}

public void openJson(){
    TextView test = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.showView);



    try{
        FileInputStream fileInput = openFileInput("story.json");

        BufferedReader inputReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fileInput, "UTF-8"), 8);
        StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            String line = null;
            while ((line = inputReader.readLine()) != null) {
                strBuilder.append(line + "\n");
            }
            fileInput.close();
            storyObj = strBuilder.toString();

    }catch(IOException e){
         Log.e("log_tag", "Error building string "+e.toString());
    }

    try{
        JSONArray jArray = new JSONArray(storyObj);
        String storyNames = "";
        for(int i = 0;i<jArray.length();i++){
            storyNames += jArray.getJSONObject(i).getString("story_name") +"\n";
        }
        test.setText(storyNames);

    }catch(JSONException e) {
         Log.e("log_tag", "Error returning string "+e.toString());
    }
    return;
//and of openJson() 
}




//end of class body    
}

Answer 1

My guess it your code failed at this lines:

responseInteger = Integer.valueOf(entityString);

After a little inspection, I see that your JSON is:

[{"story_name":"Story One"},{"story_name":"Story Two"},{"story_name":"Story Three"},{"story_name":"Story Four"},{"story_name":"Story Five"},{"story_name":"Story Six"}]

A closer inspection using JSON Viewer, I see that your structure is like this:

The problem is

I don’t see any integer in this JSON. You might have to use a combination of JSONObject and JSONArray to parse your it properly.