Question

I’m having some problems with an InputStream. I’m writing a little Android application and part of it has to fetch HTML code from a website. Generally, it works fine, but sometimes (usually the second time it’s called, but it may also take a few tries to reproduce this) it will just skip the InputStream (I noticed this since it takes a few seconds while debugging, but every time it fails it will just immediately skip to the next line). Any ideas what could be causing this and how to fix it?

    private class fetchdata extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
            public Activity activity;      
            public fetchdata(Activity a)
            {
                activity = a;
            }  
            protected Void doInBackground(Void...voids)
            {
                String[] page = new String[16384]; //Number is just for testing, don't worry
                try {
                                page = executeHttpGet();
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                                page[0] = "Error";
                        }
                displayFetchedData(page);
                return null;
            }
    public String[] executeHttpGet() throws Exception {
         URL u;
        InputStream is = null;
        DataInputStream dis = null;
        String s;
        int i = 0;
        int hostselection;
        boolean skip;
        String[] page = new String[16384];
        String[] serverurls = new String[2];
        addSecurityException();
        SharedPreferences dataprefs = getSharedPreferences("serverdata", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);        
        hostselection = dataprefs.getInt("selectedhost", 0);
        SharedPreferences preferences;
        preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(activity);
        serverurls[0] = preferences.getString("server01", "");
        serverurls[1] = preferences.getString("server02", "");
        for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
        {
         skip = false;
         if (j == 0)
         {
                         if (hostselection == 0 || hostselection == 1)
                             {
                                 Authenticator.setDefault(new MyAuthenticator(activity, false));
                             }
                         else
                         {
                                 skip = true;
                         }
         }
         if (j == 1)
         {
                         if (hostselection == 0 || hostselection == 2)
                             {
                                 Authenticator.setDefault(new MyAuthenticator(activity, true));
                             }
                         else
                         {
                                 skip = true;
                         }
         }
         if (skip == false)
         {
                         try {
                            u = new URL(serverurls[j]);
                            is = u.openStream();        //LINE IN QUESTION
                            dis = new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(is));
                            while ((s = dis.readLine()) != null)
                            {
                                if (s.length() > 18)
                                {
                                        page[i] = s;
                                        i++;
                                }
                            }
                         }
                         catch (IOException ioe)
                         {
                                 ioe.printStackTrace();
                         }
                         is.close();
                      }
        }
        return page;
   }

Answer 1

Unrelated, but you aren’t closing the DataInputStream.

Tell us more about the skipping. Is an exception raised? Is it possible that when you are running it outside of debug mode it is somehow referencing stale class files? The only thing I can imagine is that somehow your debug and normal classes are somehow different.