Question

I am trying to access data from a raw data stream. Before accessing the raw data stream, I must parse/remove any traces of xml. I do this by converting the raw stream to a string array and by iterating through each line to remove the xml.

I can parse/remove the xml from the string okay and I can recreate the data stream. The problem I have is reading through each line and storing each value (year, month, day, power)
The while loop fails with an out of bound exception on the line:
int year = bb.get(0);

My guess is that this is happening because the newResult string that’s created isn’t being read correctly through the readLine method. Instead of having a list of raw data, there’s only one line of raw data. According to the specifications, there should be 60 (and the length of decResult-1 is 60.

Here is the code below. Can anyone help me to figure out why the while loop isn’t iterating through each line? Thanks.

try {                   
   HttpRequestBase request = null;
   request = new HttpGet(urlString);
   consumer.sign(request);
   Log.v(TAG, "consumer.sign");
   HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
   InputStream stream = (InputStream)response.getEntity().getContent();
   String result = convertStreamToString(stream);
   String[] decResult = result.split("<day raw=\"");
   String newResult = ""; 
   if(decResult.length > 1) {
      for(int i=1; i<decResult.length; i++) {
         decResult[i] = decResult[i].replaceAll("\"\\/>", "");
         Log.v(TAG, "DecResult = "+ (decResult[i]).toString());
         decResult[i] = decResult[i].replaceAll("</ted5000_mtu_days>","");
         Log.v("DayData", decResult[i].toString());
         newResult = newResult.concat((decResult[i].toString() + "\n"));
   }
} 

Log.v("DayData", "newResult = "+ newResult);
Log.v("DayData", "End NewResult");
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(newResult));
String line = null;
while((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
   Log.v("DayData", "****Entering while loop***");
   Log.v("DayData", "Line = " + line);
   String bytes = Base64.decode(line);
   Log.v("DayData", "Received bytes");
   ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes.getBytes());
   Log.v("DayData", "ByteBuffer.wrap");
   bb.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
   int year = bb.get(0);
   int month = bb.get(1);
   int day = bb.get(2);
   int power = bb.getInt(3);
   Log.i("DayData", "Date: " +  month + "/" + day + "/" + year +  " Power: " + power);
  }     
  Log.v("DayData", "Exiting while loop");
  } catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     Log.e("DayData", "Exception: " + e.toString());
     return false;
}
}

Answer 1

You should use an XML parser that suits your needs. From the wikipedia page:

Existing APIs for XML processing tend to fall into these categories:

• Stream-oriented APIs accessible from a programming language, for example SAX and StAX.

• Tree-traversal APIs accessible from a programming language, for example DOM.

• XML data binding, which provides an automated translation between an XML document and
  programming-language objects.

• Declarative transformation languages such as XSLT and XQuery.