Question

im trying to connect mysql in android app. Below is my code. Once i run the code i get ‘Error parsing data org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of‘ error. I was using this tutorial

code

public class Test extends Activity{
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
     @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            //setContentView(R.layout.mainabout);
            String result = "";
          //the year data to send
          ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
          nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("year","1980"));
          InputStream is = null;               
          //http post
          try{
                  HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

                  HttpGet httppost = new HttpGet("http://www.pherma.net84.net/admin/getAllPeopleBornAfter.php");
                 // httppost.s//setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
                  HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
                  HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
                   is = entity.getContent();
          }catch(Exception e){
                  Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
          }
          //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){
                  Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
          }

          try
          {
              JSONArray jArray = new JSONArray(result);
              for(int i=0;i<jArray.length();i++){
                      JSONObject json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
                      Log.i("log_tag","id: "+json_data.getInt("id")+
                              ", name: "+json_data.getString("name")+
                              ", sex: "+json_data.getInt("sex")+
                              ", birthyear: "+json_data.getInt("birthyear")
                      );
              }

          }
          catch(JSONException e){
              Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data "+e.toString());
          } 
        }
    }

logcat

php

<?php
mysql_connect(".com","a4055820_root","");
mysql_select_db("a4055820_pherma");

$q=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM people WHERE birthyear>'".$_REQUEST['year']."'");
while($e=mysql_fetch_assoc($q))
        $output[]=$e;

print(json_encode($output));

mysql_close();
?>

Answer 1

The problem was that I forgot to give Internet access permission in the manifest.