I have been trying to use the SAX parser on Android to display some xml that is the result of a query to a DB.
I get the right answer from the DB, but when I want to parse the xml and dump the content into a Text view, the ExampleHandler (ParsedExampleDataSet) returns an Object with an empty string. I have been trying to trace where the problem is but it eludes me.
So far I know the data is parsed correctly in the characters method, I managed to print the content out to the Log file, but I cannot return the string at that point.
I am sure more experimented programmers could fix this very easily:
My xml file is pretty basic, <body> blablablah </body>.
Here are the files:
package com.ignacio.BilingualSTT;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import android.util.Log;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.util.ByteArrayBuffer;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class PostAndGet extends Activity {
private static String Utterance = null;
TextView Title;
TextView Content;
private static final String TAG = "TextToSpeechDemo";
String text;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.en_results);
Title = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.A1_title);
Content= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.A1_content);
text = "";
Bundle b = this.getIntent().getExtras();
if (b !=null){
Utterance = b.getString("query");
}
postData(Utterance);
}
/**
* Handle the action of the Back button
*/
public void sendback(View v)
{
Intent Sendback=new Intent(this, EnglishRecognizer.class);
startActivity(Sendback);
}
/**
* Start HTTP Post call
*/
public void postData(String Utterance){
// Create a new HttpClient and Post Header
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://hcc.cs.clemson.edu/~ignm/ignacio/Android_QueryResults.php");
try {
// Add data to the HTTP Request data has to be named query since the PHP page in the server is expecting that name to run the query on the DB
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("query", Utterance));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
// Execute HTTP Post Request and retrieve answer from PHP side.
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
InputStream is = response.getEntity().getContent();
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(20);
int current = 0;
while((current = bis.read()) != -1){
baf.append((byte)current);
}
// Convert the Bytes read to a String and display it in the Title Container
text = new String(baf.toByteArray());
Title.setText(text);
//Send Text to
parseXML (text);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
Toast.makeText(this, "Error in the connection", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
Toast.makeText(this,"IO Exception error", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
public void parseXML (String text){
String AnswerExt = text;
try {
/* Create a URL we want to load some xml-data from. */
URL url = new URL("http://hcc.cs.clemson.edu/~ignm/ignacio/"+AnswerExt.toString());
Log.i(TAG, url.toString());
/* Get a SAXParser from the SAXPArserFactory. */
SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
/* Get the XMLReader of the SAXParser we created. */
XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();
/* Create a new ContentHandler and apply it to the XML-Reader*/
ExampleHandler myExampleHandler = new ExampleHandler();
xr.setContentHandler(myExampleHandler);
/* Parse the xml-data from our URL. */
xr.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
/* Parsing has finished. */
/* Our ExampleHandler now provides the parsed data to us. */
ParsedExampleDataSet parsedExampleDataSet = myExampleHandler.getParsedData();
/* Set the result to be displayed in our GUI. */
Content.setText(parsedExampleDataSet.getExtractedString());
} catch (Exception e) {
/* Display any Error to the GUI. */
Content.setText("Error: " + e.getMessage());
Log.e(TAG, "QueryError", e);
}
}
}
Example Handler modified to fit the parsing of my xml.
package com.ignacio.BilingualSTT;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
public class ExampleHandler extends DefaultHandler{
// ===========================================================
// Fields
// ===========================================================
private boolean bodytag = false;
private static final String TAG = "TextToSpeechDemo";
public ParsedExampleDataSet myParsedExampleDataSet = new ParsedExampleDataSet();
public String myReturnString = null;
// ===========================================================
// Getter & Setter
// ===========================================================
public ParsedExampleDataSet getParsedData() {
return this.myParsedExampleDataSet;
}
// ===========================================================
// Methods
// ===========================================================
@Override
public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
this.myParsedExampleDataSet = new ParsedExampleDataSet();
}
@Override
public void endDocument() throws SAXException {
// Nothing to do
}
/** Gets be called on opening tags like:
* <tag>
* Can provide attribute(s), when xml was like:
* <tag attribute="attributeValue">*/
@Override
public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
String qName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
if (localName.equals("body")) {
this.bodytag = true;
}
}
/** Gets be called on closing tags like:
* </tag> */
@Override
public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException {
if (localName.equals("body")) {
this.bodytag = false;
}
}
/** Gets be called on the following structure:
* <tag>characters</tag> */
@Override
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
if(this.bodytag){
myParsedExampleDataSet.setExtractedString(new String(ch, start, length));
//String Temp = myParsedExampleDataSet.getExtractedString();
//Log.i(TAG, Temp);
}
}
}
ParsedExampleDataSet:
package com.ignacio.BilingualSTT;
public class ParsedExampleDataSet {
private String extractedString = "No content yet";
public String getExtractedString() {
return extractedString;
}
public void setExtractedString(String extractedString) {
this.extractedString = extractedString;
}
public String toString(){
return this.extractedString;
}
}
Thank you so much!!!
The
charactersmethod can get called multiple times while inside a tag, especially if the element value contains whitespace.You might be able to see this happening in that
Logcatcall by multiple lines being printed.From the documentation:
Rather than using setExtractedString, you should append to the string that’s being built up, possibly using a
StringBuilder.See the accepted answer here.