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Posted by Tarun Mall
Tarun Mall
479 Points

JSONException in BlogReader App

Hi friends,

When I am trying to fetch the detail from following URL http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary/?count=20

I am getting following JSON.

{"status":"ok","count":5,"count_total":1916,"pages":384,"posts":[{"id":24535,"url":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/new-courses-angularjs-css-basics-ruby-objects-classes","title":"New Courses: AngularJS, CSS Basics & Ruby Objects","date":"2014-12-11 09:00:24","author":"Gill Carson","thumbnail":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TeacherShoot-Guil-150x150.jpg"},{"id":24521,"url":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/everything-need-know-watchkit","title":"Everything You Need To Know About Watchkit","date":"2014-12-10 11:53:14","author":"Amit Bijlani","thumbnail":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/iwatch-150x150.png"},{"id":24530,"url":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/svg-animations","title":"SVG Animations","date":"2014-12-09 20:47:30","author":"Jason Seifer","thumbnail":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/m5dxf-150x150.jpg"},{"id":24524,"url":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/free-talk-css-accessibility","title":"Free Talk: CSS, Accessibility and You!","date":"2014-12-08 13:29:47","author":"Gill Carson","thumbnail":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/css_conf-150x150.jpg"},{"id":24507,"url":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/mary-brought-web-based-ambitions-life-working-full-time-raising-kids","title":"Mary Learned to Code While Working Full-time & Raising Kids","date":"2014-12-05 09:01:54","author":"Faye Bridge","thumbnail":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mary-150x15������������������

I don't know why I am getting those special weird characters at the end. Due to those characters I am getting following exception:

org.json.JSONException: Unterminated string at character 1556

What am I doing wrong?

2 Answers

Tarun Mall
Tarun Mall
479 Points
Tarun Mall
Tarun Mall
479 Points

bump

Sam McDavid
Sam McDavid
20,242 Points
Sam McDavid
Sam McDavid
20,242 Points

Tarun, I was having the same issue and found this post helpful: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/exception-caught-2

I used the following code:

String response = "";
int nextCharacter = 0;
do {
  nextCharacter = reader.read();
  response += (char) nextCharacter;
} while (nextCharacter != -1);