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Kushal Dongre
Courses Plus Student 1,189 PointsGetting Error "org.json.JSONException: Unterminated string at character" when parsing Json Data
Hey Guys , I get an error " org.json.JSONException: Unterminated string at character" when i try to parse the Json data from api's like api.ihackernews.com/page or http://api.dribbble.com/shots . But strangely the code seems to work for example api - http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary/ . Please help.
4 Answers
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherThere are two threads in the forum that talk about this exact issue. There's a bug in the code from the videos for certain other feeds, so I need to figure out how to update that for the future. Until then, this first post should have a solution you can use, and I'm linking the second for additional discussion (if you care):
Kushal Dongre
Courses Plus Student 1,189 PointsAwesome ! thanks Ben.
Abhijeet Naik
Courses Plus Student 174 PointsBen Jakuben Hi Ben, I am getting the same error... i experimented with it... it showing error when character goes beyond 2000 So if we decrease the number of posts to 5 its displaying. I dont Know i will ever get the answer or not.
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherYep - sorry about the issue! Check the first link I posted above. It has alternative code that fixes the bug.
Abhijeet Naik
Courses Plus Student 174 PointsBen Jakuben Thank you sir. But by using the same code i solved the issue.. i researched your json format and there was a "thumbnail" : which was returning null value so i created a String thumbnail = post.getString("thumbnail"); thumbnail = Html.fromHtml("thumbnail").toString();
and it worked :)