I am trying to parse some JSON in my app. I have an activity that the user types in their location and presses a button which opens another activity. The problem is that the app crashes when opening the second activity. I used a tutorial to figure out how to get the JSON data but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm pretty new to Android development so any ideas or help are greatly appreciated.
Here is my code:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.TextView.OnEditorActionListener;
public class WeatherLocation extends Activity
{
EditText locationText;
TextView label;
Button getWeather;
String enteredText;
String url = "http://api.worldweatheronline.com/free/v1/weather.ashx?q=%s&format=json&num_of_days=5&key=37a5fj42xpyptvjgkhrx5rwu";
String newURL;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.weatherlocation);
locationText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.locationText);
label = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.label);
getWeather = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showWeather);
locationText.setText("Current Location");
locationText.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener()
{
@Override
public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event)
{
boolean handled = false;
if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE)
{
enteredText = locationText.getText().toString();
System.out.println(enteredText);
// hide the virtual keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),
InputMethodManager.RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN);
newURL = String.format(url, enteredText);
System.out.println("Formatted URL: " + newURL);
handled = true;
}
return handled;
}
});
getWeather.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
Intent weather = new Intent(WeatherLocation.this, Weather.class);
startActivity(weather);
}
});
}
}
Weather info class:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Weather extends WeatherLocation
{
TextView currentTemp;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.weather);
currentTemp = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.currentTemp);
// Create instance of JSONParser
JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
// getting JSON string from URL
System.out.println(newURL);
JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(newURL);
try
{
JSONObject data = new JSONObject(json.getString("data"));
JSONArray currentConditions = data.getJSONArray("current_condition");
JSONArray weather = data.getJSONArray("weather");
JSONObject temp = currentConditions.getJSONObject(0);
String fahr = temp.getString("temp_F");
currentTemp.setText(fahr);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.getMessage().toString();
}
}
public static class JSONParser
{
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser()
{
}
public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(String url)
{
// Making HTTP request
try
{
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (ClientProtocolException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
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();
json = sb.toString();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try to parse the string to a JSON object
try
{
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
}
catch (JSONException e)
{
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}
}
Errors:
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.kentuckyfarmbureau.kyfb/com.kentuckyfarmbureau.kyfb.Weather}: java.lang.NullPointerException
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2211)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2261)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1256)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:737)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at com.android.internal.os.LoggingPrintStream.println(LoggingPrintStream.java:298)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at com.kentuckyfarmbureau.kyfb.Weather.onCreate(Weather.java:42)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5133)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2175)
10-14 13:11:28.523: E/AndroidRuntime(6583): ... 11 more
EDIT: I have edited the code in Weather.java (the second activity) to include this:
Intent intent = getIntent();
String url = intent.getStringExtra("INTENT_KEY_URL");
System.out.println(url);
JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);