HttpResponse using android issue: execute always causes exception?

java android android-asynctask httpresponse
Ethan Sherr picture Ethan Sherr · Feb 28, 2012 · Viewed 37.8k times · Source

I've been working on an Android project and I'm at a point where I want to ask some API for information. Seems like this should be very basic!

Here's the general gist of my code:

private InputStream retrieveStream2(String url)
{
    DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

    HttpGet getRequest = new HttpGet(url);
    System.out.println("getRequest == " + getRequest);
    try {


        HttpResponse getResponse = client.execute(getRequest);//here is teh problem
        final int statusCode = getResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();


        if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK)
        {
            Log.w(getClass().getSimpleName(),
                    "Error " + statusCode + " for URL " + url);
            return null;
        }

        HttpEntity getResponseEntity = getResponse.getEntity();
        return getResponseEntity.getContent();

    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        getRequest.abort();
        Log.w(getClass().getSimpleName(), "Error for URL, YO " + url, e);
    }
    return null;
}

where url variable is the string "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=javacodegeeks".

As you can see there is some nice JSON info at that site; My problem is that every time ''client.execute(getRequest);'' is called, the program throws and catches an exception. Not useful!

I've heard two things:

1) You have to set permission for the emulator/device to use the internet! -- I think I covered this, but maybe I did it wrong! In the androidmanifest.xml I added 

< uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" >< /uses-permission>

So there's that.

2) (which I'm not so certain about) you cannot start a 'networking' thread within a 'ui' thread. I'm not entirely sure what this means, but i went ahead and followed some tutorial on Android Threads, Handlers and AsyncTasks. Here: Please check out the code under the AsyncTask tutorial, which I followed:

http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidPerformance/article.html

After following along with the AsyncTask tutorial, I found that I still had the same problem--

the line: HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url) always threw an exception, like before.

Here is the logcat from my attempt with the threading tutorial above:

02-27 20:43:28.565: I/ActivityManager(92): START {cmp=com.Prometheus.R1/.JsonParsingActivity} from pid 574
02-27 20:43:28.565: W/WindowManager(92): Failure taking screenshot for (180x300) to layer 21010
02-27 20:43:28.896: I/System.out(574): pre execute
02-27 20:43:29.236: I/ActivityManager(92): Displayed com.Prometheus.R1/.JsonParsingActivity: +638ms
02-27 20:43:29.329: I/ARMAssembler(35): generated scanline__00000077:03010104_00008001_00000000 [ 89 ipp] (110 ins) at [0x40fad6a8:0x40fad860] in 7204915 ns
02-27 20:43:30.016: W/System.err(574): java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "search.twitter.com": No address associated with hostname
02-27 20:43:30.016: W/System.err(574):  at java.net.InetAddress.lookupHostByName(InetAddress.java:426)
02-27 20:43:30.026: W/System.err(574):  at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByNameImpl(InetAddress.java:242)
02-27 20:43:30.026: W/System.err(574):  at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:220)
02-27 20:43:30.026: W/System.err(574):  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:137)
02-27 20:43:30.036: W/System.err(574):  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPoolEntry.open(AbstractPoolEntry.java:164)
02-27 20:43:30.036: W/System.err(574):  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPooledConnAdapter.open(AbstractPooledConnAdapter.java:119)
02-27 20:43:30.046: W/System.err(574):  at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:360)
02-27 20:43:30.046: W/System.err(574):  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:555)
02-27 20:43:30.046: W/System.err(574):  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:487)
02-27 20:43:30.055: W/System.err(574):  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:465)
02-27 20:43:30.055: W/System.err(574):  at com.Prometheus.R1.JsonParsingActivity$DownloadWebPageTask.doInBackground(JsonParsingActivity.java:88)
02-27 20:43:30.055: W/System.err(574):  at com.Prometheus.R1.JsonParsingActivity$DownloadWebPageTask.doInBackground(JsonParsingActivity.java:1)
02-27 20:43:30.055: W/System.err(574):  at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:264)<br/>
02-27 20:43:30.066: W/System.err(574):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
02-27 20:43:30.066: W/System.err(574):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)<br/>
02-27 20:43:30.066: W/System.err(574):  at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:208)
02-27 20:43:30.076: W/System.err(574):  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
02-27 20:43:30.076: W/System.err(574):  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:569)
02-27 20:43:30.087: W/System.err(574):  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)
02-27 20:43:30.108: W/System.err(574): Caused by: libcore.io.GaiException: getaddrinfo failed: EAI_NODATA (No address associated with hostname)
02-27 20:43:30.116: W/System.err(574):  at libcore.io.Posix.getaddrinfo(Native Method)
02-27 20:43:30.116: W/System.err(574):  at libcore.io.ForwardingOs.getaddrinfo(ForwardingOs.java:55)
02-27 20:43:30.126: W/System.err(574):  at java.net.InetAddress.lookupHostByName(InetAddress.java:411)
02-27 20:43:30.126: W/System.err(574):  ... 18 more
02-27 20:43:30.136: I/System.out(574): Except thrown by url http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=javacodegeeks, .... 
02-27 20:43:30.136: I/System.out(574): response =


The exception is an UnknownHostException as you can see:
"ava.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "search.twitter.com": No address associated with hostname"
But I don't think the site is unacceptable...

Can anyone tell me what's going on + what I need to do to get through it?

Answer

Genaut picture Genaut · Jul 21, 2014

Check the permissions of your manifest, make sure you have added this:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

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