Question

So, i’m trying to parse some xml that looks this way:

<image size="extralarge">
http://...
</image>

But I can’t manage to compare the value of attr with a String.
Here’s my code :

    albumImage.setTextElementListener(new TextElementListener() {
        boolean imageGoodSize=true;
        @Override
        public void start(Attributes attributes) {
            Log.v(TAG_LASTFM, "Image #" + attributes.getValue("size") + "#");
            if(attributes.getValue("size")+"" == "extralarge" || attributes.getValue("size")+"" == "mega") {
                imageGoodSize=false;
                Log.w(TAG_LASTFM, "(imageGoodSize set to false");
            }
            else {
                imageGoodSize=true;
            }
        }

In the log, it shows that size is set to “extralarge”, But when i try to compare it to the string “extralarge”, imageGoodSize isn’t set to false. What am I doing wrong ?

Here is the log :

06-21 01:52:30.463: V/ParseMusic_LastFM(32610): Image #extralarge#

Answer 1

You should not compare Strings in Java with the == operator. You need to use .equals("extralarge")

== compare the reference to the String, whereas .equals compare the content.