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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Getting Data from the Web Getting JSON Data from an HTTP Request

Posted by MJ Whalen
MJ Whalen
Courses Plus Student 1,015 Points

If I am using my own API built with Laravel, how do I set Content-Length for an array?

I've currently got:

Route::get('/api/test/', function() {
    $meals = Posts::all()->toArray();
    return Response::json(['posts' => $posts], 200);
});

I get an error in Android "java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException: -1" which, after searching, is due to no 'Content-Length' being sent, I can set it manually with ['Content-Length' => someValue] but it will mismatch or be too short. How do I set it dynamically like teamtreehouses api?

Thanks!

1 Answer

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

You should be able to work around it with some different code in the Android app: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/parsing-data-returned-in-json-jsonexception-unterminated-string-at-character-5792

Sorry about the trouble!

MJ Whalen
MJ Whalen
Courses Plus Student 1,015 Points

Thanks for that, all working now. Thanks for the course!