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[lintwurm]

Hello all,

I've been having a couple of problems coding this android application. What I want it to do is send a json object to a server. I have some code, was just wondering if someone can help me and tell me where I have gone wrong?

First is the JSON.java File:

package example.JSON;


import java.io.IOException;


import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;

import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;

import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import org.json.JSONException;

import org.json.JSONObject;


import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.Toast;


public class JSON extends Activity

{

	/** Called when the activity is first created. */

	@Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

    {

		JSONObject json = new JSONObject();

		try

		{

			json.put("Longtude", "15");

			json.put("Lattetude", "30");

		}

		catch (JSONException e)

		{

			// TODO Auto-generated catch block

			e.printStackTrace();

		}

		String url = "http://www.upgardens.co.za/upload.php";

		HttpResponse re;

		String temp = new String();

		try

		{

			re = HTTPPoster.doPost(url, json);

			temp = EntityUtils.toString(re.getEntity());

		}

		catch (ClientProtocolException e)

		{

			// TODO Auto-generated catch block

			e.printStackTrace();

		}

		catch (IOException e)

		{

			// TODO Auto-generated catch block

			e.printStackTrace();

		}

		if (temp.compareTo("SUCCESS")==0)

		{

		    Toast.makeText(this, "Sending complete!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

		}

    	super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    	setContentView(R.layout.main);

    }

}

Now HTTPPoster.java

package example.JSON;


import java.io.IOException;


import org.apache.http.Header;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;

import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;

import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;

import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;

import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;

import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;

import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

import org.json.JSONObject;


public class HTTPPoster

{

	public static HttpResponse doPost(String url, JSONObject c) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException 

	{

		HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

		HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);

	    HttpEntity entity;

	    StringEntity s = new StringEntity(c.toString());

	    s.setContentEncoding((Header) new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json"));

	    entity = s;

	    request.setEntity(entity);

	    HttpResponse response;

	    response = httpclient.execute(request);

	    return response;

	}

}

and now the php script on the server
upload.php

<?php

 

	// decode JSON string to PHP object

	$decoded = json_decode($_GET['json']);

	// do something with data here

	$Longitude = $decoded['Longitude'];

	$Lattetude = $decoded['Lattetude'];

	$myFile = "testFile.txt";

	$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");

	$stringData = $Longitude;

	fwrite($fh, $stringData);

	$stringData = $Lattetude;

	fwrite($fh, $stringData);

	fclose($fh);

	// create response object

	$json = array();

	$json['errorsNum'] = 2;

	$json['error'] = array();

	$json['error'][] = 'Wrong Longtude!';

	$json['error'][] = 'Wrong Lattetude!';

	// encode array $json to JSON string

	$encoded = json_encode($json);

	// send response back to index.html

	// and end script execution

	die($encoded);

?>

I should also say in the first code segment where I call: re = HTTPPoster.doPost(url, json);
is where the problem is...
The class I created is doing something funky...


Thanks upfront for any help

Edited by Roger, 23 July 2011 - 02:43 PM.
added prefix

[Parabola]

I have a suggestion. Don't do a json object for only 2 variables... do a request, or a post. if anything, use php, and send it a url such as
<url>/<name>.php?long=<longitude>&lat=<latitude>

If you absolutely have to use json object upstream, maybe you can reverse my code somehow
here is a sample of a request i do to get info from a mySql server via php and json:
Note the use of nameValuePairs

String result = new String();            result = "";
            ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("device",product));
            InputStream is = null;
            try
            {
                HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("<link removed>");
                httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
                HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
                HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
                is = entity.getContent();
                
            }catch (Exception e)
            {
                
                Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
            }
            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();
                
                result = sb.toString();
                
            }catch (Exception e) {
                Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
            }
            
            try{
                if(result != null){
                JSONArray jArray = new JSONArray(result);
                Log.i("log_tag", Integer.toString(jArray.length()));
                for(int i=0;i<jArray.length(); i++){
                    JSONObject json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
                    
                        sitems.add(json_data.getString("kernel_name") + " " + json_data.getString("kernel_version"));
                        fitems.add(json_data.getString("download_url"));
                }}
                else{
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "NULL", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
                
            }catch(JSONException e)
            {
                Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data "+e.toString());
                
            }