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Ayman Bitar
Ayman Bitar
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Posted by Ayman Bitar
Ayman Bitar
9,462 Points

contentlength of the Inputstream is -1

Hello,

I've watched the course on starting the Blogreader App, and it worked perfectly for me.

Now i'm trying to do with a different website, however the contentLength is always returning -1. I'm not sure if its a problem from the site that i'm getting from or something else.

This is the link of the website: www.kippreport.com/?json=1

Thank you in advance.

Best, Ayman

2 Answers

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Sorry - this is a known error! We discussed this in the Forum a while back and have linked to it as a "Known Issue" in the Teacher Notes on the video page. Check out the solution (and discussion) in that other thread. I will loop back and update the project at some point, too.

Other posts about this issue:

Ayman Bitar
Ayman Bitar
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Ayman Bitar
Ayman Bitar
9,462 Points

Thanks for this. It really helped. I have replied below with the exact lines to change, so anyone else could just do it easily.

Ayman Bitar
Ayman Bitar
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Ayman Bitar
Ayman Bitar
9,462 Points

Hi Ben,

Thank you very much for the solution. It's working perfectly. I used the below solution.

If you followed the tutorials exactly inside the GetBlogPostTask class, replace the following lines:

try {
            URL blogFeedURL = new URL("http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary/?count=" + NUMBER_OF_POSTS);
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) blogFeedURL.openConnection();
            connection.connect();

            responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            if(responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
                Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
                int contentLength = connection.getContentLength();
                System.out.println(contentLength);
                char[] charArray = new char[contentLength];
                reader.read(charArray);
                String responseData = new String(charArray);

                jsonResponse = new JSONObject(responseData);
            }

with the following:

StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary/?count=" + NUMBER_OF_POSTS);

        try {
            HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpget);
            StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
            responseCode = statusLine.getStatusCode();

            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);
                }
                String s = builder.toString();
                jsonResponse = new JSONObject(s);
            }

Its the solution that Fabian Hippmann provided in this link https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/blogreader-app-json-exception#show-comment-11122

Thanks again.

Best, Ayman