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Android

Posted by Dinesh Vijaykumar
Dinesh Vijaykumar
9,879 Points

Connection.getContentLength() returns -1 for Google API

For the blog reader app, when I changed the url to the ajax Google API the getContentLength method for the HttpURLConnection object returns -1. Why is this the case?

1 Answer

Ankit B
Ankit B
4,180 Points
Ankit B
Ankit B
4,180 Points

As Ben pointed out in this treehouse post, use this code instead:

if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    InputStream content = entity.getContent();
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(content));
    String line;
    while((line = reader.readLine()) != null){
        builder.append(line);
    }

    jsonResponse = new JSONObject(builder.toString());
}
else {
    Log.i(TAG, String.format("Unsuccessful HTTP response code: %d", responseCode));
}