Im making a log in activity to connect to a MySQL database. For some reason I keep getting this
08-13 08:45:59.739 1144-1159/com.amity.paul.amity E/JSON Parser﹕ Error parsing data org.json.JSONException: Value  of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject
08-13 08:45:59.739 1144-1159/com.amity.paul.amity W/dalvikvm﹕ threadid=11: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb3ad0ba8)
08-13 08:46:02.409 1144-1159/com.amity.paul.amity E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: AsyncTask #1
Process: com.amity.paul.amity, PID: 1144
java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground()
at android.os.AsyncTask$3.done(AsyncTask.java:300)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.finishCompletion(FutureTask.java:355)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.setException(FutureTask.java:222)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:242)
at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:231)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.amity.paul.amity.login$AttemptLogin.doInBackground(login.java:129)
at com.amity.paul.amity.login$AttemptLogin.doInBackground(login.java:93)
at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:288)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237)
at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:231)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841)
I have no idea what is wrong. Below are the related files: login.java
package com.amity.paul.amity;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
import library.JSONParser;
public class login extends Activity implements OnClickListener{
private EditText user, pass;
private Button mSubmit, mRegister;
// Progress Dialog
private ProgressDialog pDialog;
// JSON parser class
JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
//php login script location:
//localhost :
//testing on your device
//put your local ip instead, on windows, run CMD > ipconfig
//or in mac's terminal type ifconfig and look for the ip under en0 or en1
// private static final String LOGIN_URL = "http://xxx.xxx.x.x:1234/webservice/login.php";
//testing on Emulator:
private static final String LOGIN_URL = "http://192.168.2.157/amity/login.php";
//testing from a real server:
//private static final String LOGIN_URL = "http://www.yourdomain.com/webservice/login.php";
//JSON element ids from repsonse of php script:
private static final String TAG_SUCCESS = "success";
private static final String TAG_MESSAGE = "message";
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.login);
//setup input fields
user = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.username);
pass = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.password);
//setup buttons
mSubmit = (Button)findViewById(R.id.login);
mRegister = (Button)findViewById(R.id.register);
//register listeners
mSubmit.setOnClickListener(this);
mRegister.setOnClickListener(this);
}
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
switch (v.getId()) {
case R.id.login:
new AttemptLogin().execute();
break;
case R.id.register:
Intent i = new Intent(this, register.class);
startActivity(i);
break;
default:
break;
}
}
class AttemptLogin extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {
/**
* Before starting background thread Show Progress Dialog
* */
boolean failure = false;
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
pDialog = new ProgressDialog(login.this);
pDialog.setMessage("Attempting login...");
pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
pDialog.setCancelable(true);
pDialog.show();
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
// Check for success tag
int success;
String username = user.getText().toString();
String password = pass.getText().toString();
try {
// Building Parameters
List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", username));
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", password));
Log.d("request!", "starting");
// getting product details by making HTTP request
JSONObject json = jsonParser.makeHttpRequest(
LOGIN_URL, "POST", params);
// check your log for json response
Log.d("Login attempt", json.toString());
// json success tag
success = json.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);
if (success == 1) {
Log.d("Login Successful!", json.toString());
//save user data
SharedPreferences sp = PreferenceManager
.getDefaultSharedPreferences(login.this);
SharedPreferences.Editor edit = sp.edit();
edit.putString("username",username);
edit.commit();
Intent i = new Intent(login.this, home.class);
finish();
startActivity(i);
return json.getString(TAG_MESSAGE);
}else{
Log.d("Login Failure!", json.getString(TAG_MESSAGE));
return json.getString(TAG_MESSAGE);
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
/**
* After completing background task Dismiss the progress dialog
* **/
protected void onPostExecute(String file_url) {
// dismiss the dialog once product deleted
pDialog.dismiss();
if (file_url != null){
Toast.makeText(login.this, file_url, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
}
}
JSONParser:
package library;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.util.Log;
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(final String url) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// Construct the client and the HTTP request.
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
// Execute the POST request and store the response locally.
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
// Extract data from the response.
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
// Open an inputStream with the data content.
is = httpEntity.getContent();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
// Create a BufferedReader to parse through the inputStream.
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
// Declare a string builder to help with the parsing.
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
// Declare a string to store the JSON object data in string form.
String line = null;
// Build the string until null.
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "
");
}
// Close the input stream.
is.close();
// Convert the string builder data to an actual string.
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 the JSON Object.
return jObj;
}
// function get json from url
// by making HTTP POST or GET mehtod
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
List<NameValuePair> params) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// check for request method
if(method == "POST"){
// request method is POST
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}else if(method == "GET"){
// request method is GET
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
String paramString = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "utf-8");
url += "?" + paramString;
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
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 + "
");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try 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;
}
}
login.php
<?php
//load and connect to MySQL database stuff
require("config.inc.php");
if (!empty($_POST)) {
//gets user's info based off of a username.
$query = "
SELECT
id,
username,
password
FROM users
WHERE
username = :username
";
$query_params = array(
':username' => $_POST['username']
);
try {
$stmt = $db->prepare($query);
$result = $stmt->execute($query_params);
}
catch (PDOException $ex) {
// For testing, you could use a die and message.
//die("Failed to run query: " . $ex->getMessage());
//or just use this use this one to product JSON data:
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = "Database Error1. Please Try Again!";
die(json_encode($response));
}
//This will be the variable to determine whether or not the user's information is correct.
//we initialize it as false.
$validated_info = false;
//fetching all the rows from the query
$row = $stmt->fetch();
if ($row) {
//if we encrypted the password, we would unencrypt it here, but in our case we just
//compare the two passwords
if ($_POST['password'] === $row['password']) {
$login_ok = true;
}
}
// If the user logged in successfully, then we send them to the private members-only page
// Otherwise, we display a login failed message and show the login form again
if ($login_ok) {
$response["success"] = 1;
$response["message"] = "Login successful!";
die(json_encode($response));
} else {
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = "Invalid Credentials!";
die(json_encode($response));
}
} else {
?>
<h1>Login</h1>
<form action="login.php" method="post">
Username:<br />
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="username" />
<br /><br />
Password:<br />
<input type="password" name="password" placeholder="password" value="" />
<br /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Login" />
</form>
<a href="register.php">Register</a>
<?php
}
?>
I am extremely new to mobile development so please make it easy to understand. Cheers!
