Question

I have a html page that I am reading.
If the format I am reading in that page is not present I want to exit and continue with the next page but that is not working.

can you please let me know what I am missing

try
{
    Document doc = Jsoup.connect(urlget).get();
    Element tables = doc.select("div.itembody");
    websiteaddress= tables.text();
}
catch (IOException ee)
{
}

If the get is not having itembody I am seeing a exception:
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException
I want this loop to be continued not the program exsit when there is a exception

Answer 1

doc.select returns an object of type Elements (a list of Elements) not Element. If no element in your html matches the query you get an empty list of elements. Change your code to:

try
{
    Document doc = Jsoup.connect(urlget).get();
    Elements tables = doc.select("div.itembody");
    if(tables.isEmpty())
        noDivItembodyInHTML();
    else
        websiteaddress = tables.first().text();
}
catch (IOException ee)
{
}