How to put http response into array in Android - php

Question

I‘m trying to use Http response to get data from PHP server but the tricky thing in here that I get the response as a one string. I want to put the response into array. The response originally contains many queries that I retrieved from MySQL. I am grateful for any help.

Answer 1

You should encode your response on the server side using a data interchange format such as XML or JSON.
Then you can easily parse it on the client side.
Android has great support for both, though JSON might be a bit easier.
If your data structure is very simple - e.g a list of words - you could use CSV (Comma Separated Value) and String.split() to get an array:
String[] words = response.split(",");
JSON example (string array)
[
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz",
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut"
]
JSONArray array = new JSONArray(response);
String[] sentences = new String[array.length()];
for (int i = 0, i < array.length(); i++){
sentences[i] = array.getString(i);
}

Answer 2

Try this...It will help you to store your response in array.
try
{
URL url = new URL("http:/xx.xxx.xxx.x/sample.php");
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String x = "";
String total = "";
int i=0;
ArrayList<String> content = new ArrayList();
while((x = r.readLine()) != null)
{
content.add(x);
}
in.close();
r.close();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
Toast.makeText(this, e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
You can convert the arrayList to array.
String ar[]= content.toArray(new String[content.size()]);

Answer 3

a better way would be to make your php webservice send data in JSON. then recieve it as a and parse the JSON response for data you need. I recommend JSON because it is more lighter than xml which will improve performance reducing bandwidth consumption.

Answer 4

Try to create a php scripts that return a JSON data this is the example of retrieving data and putting them into array.
<?php
$response = array();
require_once __DIR__ . '/db_connect.php';
$db = new DB_CONNECT();
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_products") or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
$response["product"] = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$product = array();
$product["products_id"] = $row["table_id"];
$product["products_price"] = $row["transaction_no"];
$product['products_name'] = $row["table_total_price"];
array_push($response["product"], $product);
}
$response["success"] = 1;
echo json_encode($response);
} else {
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = "No products found";
echo json_encode($response);
}
?>
and this one is for android:
JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(NAME_OF_URL);
Log.d("All Product List: ", json.toString());
try {
int success = json.getInt("success");
if (success == 1) {
products = json.getJSONArray("product");
for (int i = 0; i < products.length(); i++) {
JSONObject c = products.getJSONObject(i);
String id =c.getString("products_id");
String price =c.getString("products_price");
String name = c.getString("products_name");
}
} else {
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}