Android loopj Async Http crashes after 1.4.5 update

Question

The new update for Android loopj Async Http lib is out and they changed a lot. Now you need to manually set Looper.prepare() otherwise it uses synchronious mode instead of async by default. I don't get where I need to set it.

Logcat

07-09 08:16:18.775: W/AsyncHttpResponseHandler(6606): Current thread has not called Looper.prepare(). Forcing synchronous mode.

After that message it totally crashes

07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606): FATAL EXCEPTION: AsyncTask #1
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606): java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground()
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at android.os.AsyncTask$3.done(AsyncTask.java:278)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerSetException(FutureTask.java:273)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.setException(FutureTask.java:124)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:307)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:208)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:569)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:864)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Synchronous ResponseHandler used in AsyncHttpClient. You should create your response handler in a looper thread or use SyncHttpClient instead.
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpClient.sendRequest(AsyncHttpClient.java:1096)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpClient.post(AsyncHttpClient.java:873)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpClient.post(AsyncHttpClient.java:856)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpClient.post(AsyncHttpClient.java:843)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.xxx.app.HttpRequestGCM.post(HttpRequestGCM.java:15)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.xxx.app.ChatActivity$RegisterBackground.sendRegistrationIdToBackend(ChatActivity.java:681)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.xxx.app.ChatActivity$RegisterBackground.doInBackground(ChatActivity.java:660)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at com.xxx.app.ChatActivity$RegisterBackground.doInBackground(ChatActivity.java:1)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:264)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
07-09 08:16:18.835: E/AndroidRuntime(6606):     ... 5 more

My class for the Http Request:

import android.os.Looper;

import com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpClient;
import com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpResponseHandler;
import com.loopj.android.http.PersistentCookieStore;
import com.loopj.android.http.RequestParams;

public class HttpRequest {
      public static AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();

      public static void setCookieStore(PersistentCookieStore cookieStore) {
            client.setCookieStore(cookieStore);
        }

      public static void get(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
          Looper.prepare();
          client.get(url, params, responseHandler);
      }

      public static void post(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
          Looper.prepare();
          client.post(url, params, responseHandler);
      }
}

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

I had a similar issue and found that making HTTP requests with an AsyncHttpClient in a thread caused the problem.

I ran my HTTP request outside of the thread and it fixed the problem for me. You can try something like:

public class HttpRequest {

  // A SyncHttpClient is an AsyncHttpClient
  public static AsyncHttpClient syncHttpClient= new SyncHttpClient();
  public static AsyncHttpClient asyncHttpClient = new AsyncHttpClient();

  public static void setCookieStore(PersistentCookieStore cookieStore) {
      getClient().setCookieStore(cookieStore);
  }

  public static void get(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
      getClient().get(url, params, responseHandler);
  }

  public static void post(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
      getClient().post(url, params, responseHandler);
  }

  /**
   * @return an async client when calling from the main thread, otherwise a sync client.
   */
  private static AsyncHttpClient getClient()
  {
      // Return the synchronous HTTP client when the thread is not prepared
      if (Looper.myLooper() == null)
          return syncHttpClient;
      return asyncHttpClient;
  }
}