Question

I would like to make my app to show a dialog box when the Http Response is equal to NULL. But couldnt find a way to do it. I’ve mark it in my codes. Can anyone please show me how is it done? Below are my codes and my attempt.

public class XMLParser {
    private Activity activity = null;
    // constructor
    public XMLParser(Activity act) {
        activity = act;
    }

    /**
     * Getting XML from URL making HTTP request
     * @param url string
     * */
    public String getXmlFromUrl(String url) {
        String xml = null;

        try {
            // defaultHttpClient
            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

            if (httpResponse == null) {

                AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity);
                 builder.setMessage("No Response from Server ")
                        .setCancelable(false)
                        .setPositiveButton("Exit", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                                System.exit(0);
                            }

                           });
                AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
                 alert.show(); 

            }
            HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
            xml = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);

        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        // return XML
        return xml;
        }

        /**
         * Getting XML DOM element
         * @param XML string
         * */
        public Document getDomElement(String xml){
            Document doc = null;
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            try {

                DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

                InputSource is = new InputSource();
                    is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));
                    doc = db.parse(is); 

                } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
                    Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
                    return null;
                } catch (SAXException e) {
                    Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
                    return null;
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
                    return null;
                }

                return doc;
        }

        /** Getting node value
          * @param elem element
          */
         public final String getElementValue( Node elem ) {
             Node child;
             if( elem != null){
                 if (elem.hasChildNodes()){
                     for( child = elem.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child.getNextSibling() ){
                         if( child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE  ){
                             return child.getNodeValue();
                         }
                     }
                 }
             }
             return "";
         }

         /**
          * Getting node value
          * @param Element node
          * @param key string
          * */
         public String getValue(Element item, String str) {     
                NodeList n = item.getElementsByTagName(str);        
                return this.getElementValue(n.item(0));
            }
    }

Answer 1

You need Activity context when initializing AlertDialog object. So change your class file a little as below:

private Activity activity = null;

public XMLParser(Activity act) {
   activity = act;
}

and later on when using AlertDialog, initialize it as below:

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity);