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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Networking Building an HTTP Request

Posted by ma ali
ma ali
Courses Plus Student 2,788 Points

What is missing or wrong?

In our movie app we want to build an HTTP request using OkHttp (TreeHttp had some bugs). Create a new OkHttpClient variable and initialize it using the default constructor.

MovieActivity.java 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class MovieActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_movie);

        // Get some movie information!
        String apiUrl = "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json?apikey=xyz&q=hobbit";




        OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
        Request request = new Request.Builder()
                .url(forecastUrl)
                .build();

        Call call = client.newCall(request);
        try {
            Response response = call.execute();
            if (response.isSuccessful()) {
                Log.v(TAG, response.body().string());
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "Exception caught: ", e);
        }






    }
}

3 Answers

Stephen Bone
Stephen Bone
12,359 Points
Stephen Bone
Stephen Bone
12,359 Points

Hi ma ali

It looks like you've just copied and pasted straight from the Stormy project which is fine but you've got some extra stuff in there that we don't need and you need to update the parameter so that it applies to this challenge.

So we only need the lines starting OkHttpClient... (which you write to complete the first task) and the line starting Request... (for second task). You can delete the Call and try/catch block.

We then just need to pass the url from this challenge, in this case apiUrl, into the Request.Builder.

So when you're done your code should look something like below:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
                             .url(apiUrl)
                             .build();

Hope it helps!

Stephen

channonhall
channonhall
12,247 Points

Can you paste the whole code please? I don't understand what you are trying to say.

MUZ140566 Kundai Katambetambe@gmail.com
MUZ140566 Kundai Katambetambe@gmail.com
4,845 Points
MUZ140566 Kundai Katambetambe@gmail.com
MUZ140566 Kundai Katambetambe@gmail.com
4,845 Points

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("http://publicobject.com/helloword.text") .build();

Patrick Munemo
Patrick Munemo
14,892 Points
Patrick Munemo
Patrick Munemo
14,892 Points

import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button;

public class MovieActivity extends Activity {

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_movie);

    // Get some movie information!
    String apiUrl = "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json?apikey=xyz&q=hobbit";

  OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); 
  Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("http://publicobject.com/helloword.text") .build();
}

}