I've created a new Android project in which the only code I've added is this code in the onCreate()
method (I also added the INTERNET permission to the manifest):
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_http_get_test);
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet();
try
{
System.out.println("making uri");
URI uri = new URI("http://w3mentor.com/");
request.setURI(uri);
System.out.println("executing");
client.execute(request); // This line throws the exception
System.out.println("Done!");
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
In the log, I see that the last thing printed by the try
block was executing
, after which a NullPointerException was thrown.
I loosely based my code on the beginning of this example, but I can't see what I'm doing differently that would cause a NullPointerException.
When run in the debugger I see that the exception is actually a NetworkOnMainThreadException, which apparently causes a NullPointerException when I try e.getMessage()
.
The error message being printed out is
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.whatever.http.test/com.whatever.http.test.HttpGetTest}: java.lang.NullPointerException
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1956)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1981)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:123)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1147)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at com.android.internal.os.LoggingPrintStream.println(LoggingPrintStream.java:298)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at com.whatever.http.test.HttpGetTest.onCreate(HttpGetTest.java:33)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4465)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1920)
07-12 02:58:33.997: E/AndroidRuntime(983): ... 11 more