Hi, I'm really not sure if I fixed this or not. I've tried your method and it seems to be working fine. I really need some help here because I'm running out of ideas.
The App, I've designed an app for the online Sim Racing community that reads in 4 RSS feeds from 4 different servers. Because some of them are not particularly well formatted I've had to read and store the data one by one in the SQLite database. I've released this onto the market as I wanted to test it. I have made the Sim Racing Community that there are errors and it needs testing so here's the basic structure of the code.
Start App
---runs inside AsyncTask
---loop through string of RSS feeds (4 times)
---parse RSS
---store RSS
---change to Feeds Activity
---inside thread to allow progress bar to display.
---load from db feeds into list.
The problem is that when I use it on my HTC Desire, it works, I've put catches in place so that if there are any download errors it tells you. I've even got it to work in areas where my reception has been less than perfect. the problem is that some people are simply complaining of never getting any results back, even on WiFi. Of course these people don't give proper descriptions of what errors are recieved etc. so it's very difficult to diagnose.
ok, so here's some code
this function is called from the doinbackground inside the Asynctask
Code:
private int storeRSS() {
int count = 0;
this.droidDB = new SimRacingNewsDB(this);
this.droidDB.deleteAll("articles");
for (int i = 0; i < RSSFEEDS.length; i++) {
String[] items = null;
String author = null;
if (i == 0)
author = "www.virtualr.net";
else if (i == 1)
author = "www.racesimcentral.com";
feed = getFeed(RSSFEEDS[i]);
if (feed != null) {
count = count + feed.getItemCount();
feeds = feed.getAllItems();
for (int j = 0; j < feeds.size(); j++) {
items = new String[6];
items[0] = feed.getItem(j).getTitle();
items[1] = feed.getItem(j).getLink();
items[2] = feed.getItem(j).getPubDate();
items[3] = feed.getItem(j).getDescription();
items[4] = "Sim Racing News";
items[5] = author;
// Now we need to insert this into the database.
droidDB.insert(items, "articles");
}
}
}
return count;
}
which calls this,
Code:
private RSSFeed getFeed(String urlToRssFeed)
{
try
{
// setup the url
URL url = new URL(urlToRssFeed);
String u = url.toString();
// create the factory
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
// create a parser
SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
// create the reader (scanner)
XMLReader xmlreader = parser.getXMLReader();
// instantiate our handler
RSSHandler theRssHandler = new RSSHandler();
// assign our handler
xmlreader.setContentHandler(theRssHandler);
// get our data through the url class
// HttpURLConnection con = null;
// InputStream is = null;
// con = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
InputSource is = new InputSource();
InputStreamReader reader = null;
// try {
BufferedInputStream buffer = new BufferedInputStream( url.openStream() );
reader = new InputStreamReader( buffer );
is.setCharacterStream( reader );
xmlreader.parse(is);
// } catch (IOException e) {
// exception = e.toString();
// } catch (ParseException e) {
// exception = e.toString();
// } catch (SAXException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
// e.printStackTrace();
// }
/*
try {
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(u);
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
// InputStream content = response.getEntity().getContent();
xmlreader.parse(new InputSource(new BufferedInputStream(response.getEntity().getContent())));
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d("RSS Reader", "Network Error");
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Network error", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
*/
return theRssHandler.getFeed();
}
catch (IOException ee)
{
// if you have a problem, simply return null
exception = ee.toString();
Log.e("Sim Racing News", exception);
downloaded = 2;
return null;
} catch (SAXException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
exception = e.toString();
Log.e("Sim Racing News", exception);
downloaded = 3;
return null;
} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
exception = e.toString();
Log.e("Sim Racing News", exception);
downloaded = 4;
return null;
} catch (ParseException e) {
exception = e.toString();
Log.e("Sim Racing News", exception);
downloaded = 4;
return null;
}
}
Main bulk of the RSSHandler looks like this.
Code:
public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,String qName,
Attributes atts) throws SAXException
{
depth++;
if (localName.equals("channel"))
{
currentstate = 0;
return;
}
// if (localName.equals("image"))
// {
// record our feed data - you temporarily stored it in the item :)
// _feed.setTitle(_item.getTitle());
// _feed.setPubDate(_item.getPubDate());
// }
if (localName.equals("item"))
{
// create a new item
itemFound = true;
_item = new RSSItem();
return;
}
if (localName.equals("title"))
{
currentstate = RSS_TITLE;
return;
}
if (localName.equals("description"))
{
currentstate = RSS_DESCRIPTION;
return;
}
if (localName.equals("link"))
{
currentstate = RSS_LINK;
return;
}
/**
if (localName.equals("category"))
{
currentstate = RSS_CATEGORY;
return;
}
*/
if (localName.equals("pubDate"))
{
currentstate = RSS_PUBDATE;
return;
}
// if you don't explicitly handle the element, make sure you don't wind
// up erroneously storing a newline or other bogus data into one of our
// existing elements
currentstate = 0;
}
public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException
{
depth--;
if (localName.equals("item"))
{
// add our item to the list!
itemFound = false;
titleFound = false;
_feed.addItem(_item);
// bFoundCategory = false;
return;
}
}
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length)
{
String theString = new String(ch,start,length);
Log.i("RSSReader","characters[" + theString + "]");
switch (currentstate)
{
case RSS_TITLE:
if (itemFound != false) {
if (titleFound != true) {
if (theString.length() > 4)
{
_lastTitle = theString;
_item.setTitle(theString);
currentstate = 0;
titleFound = true;
}
}
}
break;
case RSS_LINK:
_item.setLink(theString);
currentstate = 0;
break;
case RSS_DESCRIPTION:
_lastDesc = theString;
_item.setDescription(theString);
currentstate = 0;
break;
/**
case RSS_CATEGORY:
if (bFoundCategory != true){
theString = sortCat(theString);
_item.setCategory(theString);
currentstate = 0;
}
break;
*/
case RSS_PUBDATE:
_item.setPubDate(theString);
currentstate = 0;
break;
default:
return;
}
}
So that's it. Like I say I can get it to work, and I know others can too as I've been told, it's just that some people can't and unfortunately these are the people that comment and give bad star ratings.
Any help I would be more than grateful. The app is available under the Android market, by searching Sim Racing News.
Thanks
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I'm glad to help but I need beta testers too 
