Question

I previously asked a question with regards to parsing json, since then I found an example that should work correctly but its not. The code I now have is as followed:

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

        final TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);

            StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
            StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);

            String username = "exampleusername";
            String password = "examplepassword";
            String url = "http://www.example.com/api/core/v1/my/";
            String unp = username+":"+password;


            class MyUser {
                  public String firstName;
                  public String lastName;
            }


            try {
                HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
                HttpGet header = new HttpGet(url);
                String encoded_login = Base64.encodeToString(unp.getBytes(), Base64.NO_WRAP);
                header.setHeader(new BasicHeader("Authorization", "Basic "+encoded_login));
                HttpResponse response = client.execute(header);
                HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(entity.getContent()));
                for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
                    if (line.isEmpty()) break; // Stop when headers are completed. We're not interested in all the HTML.
                    final String newjson = line.replaceAll("throw 'allowIllegalResourceCall is false.';", "");

                    JSONObject mainObject = new JSONObject(newjson);
                    JSONObject uniObject = mainObject.getJSONObject("firstName");

               // System.out.println(newjson + newjson.contains("firstName") + "," + newjson.contains("lastName"));
               System.out.println(uniObject);
             //   System.out.println(uniURL);
                }

With this code i am now getting the following error:

W/System.err(910): org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of 
W/System.err(910): at org.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:450)
W/System.err(910): at org.json.JSONTokener.nextValue(JSONTokener.java:97)
W/System.err(910): at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:154)
W/System.err(910): at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:171)
W/System.err(910): at basic.authentication.BasicAuthenticationActivity.onCreate(BasicAuthenticationActivity.java:84)
W/System.err(910): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4465)
W/System.err(910): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049)
W/System.err(910): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1920)
W/System.err(910): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1981)
W/System.err(910): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:123)
W/System.err(910): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1147)
W/System.err(910): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
W/System.err(910): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
W/System.err(910): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
W/System.err(910): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
W/System.err(910): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
W/System.err(910): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
W/System.err(910): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
W/System.err(910): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

part of the json string that i am pulling down is as followed:

{
  "enabled" : true,
  "email" : "[e-mail]",
  "firstName" : "example firstname",
  "lastName" : "example lastname",
  "name" : "example fullname",
  "level" : {

I am so so confused with json right now and why this is not working

Answer 1

try this read function

public static JSONObject read(String url, String unp){

    System.out.println("Connecting to service URL : "+url);
    InputStream is = null;
    String result = "";
    // http post
    try {
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
        String encoded_login = Base64.encodeToString(unp.getBytes(), Base64.NO_WRAP);
        httppost.setHeader(new BasicHeader("Authorization", "Basic "+encoded_login));
        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        is = entity.getContent();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    // convert response to string
    try {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + "\n");
        }
        is.close();
        result = sb.toString();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    JSONObject json = null;
    try {
        json = new JSONObject(result);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return json;
}

}

• here i connects to the service first
• downloads the response
• pass it for JSONObject creation, instead of doing it in loop