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/** * @author Vinay Hiremath * vhiremath4@gmail.com * Activity that displays the user's items currently on loan. */ /* The MIT License Copyright (c) 2011 Vinay Hiremath Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ package com.cs411.trackallthethings; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.util.ArrayList; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.json.JSONArray; import org.json.JSONException; import org.json.JSONObject; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.ProgressDialog; import android.content.Context; import android.os.AsyncTask; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.ListView; import android.widget.Toast; public class ItemsOnLoan extends Activity { // fields for the feed private static ArrayAdapter<Item> itemsOnLoanAdapter; private static ArrayList<Item> itemsOnLoan = new ArrayList<Item>(); // progress dialog private static ProgressDialog loading; public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.itemsonloan); // bind the ArrayList of Item Objects to the Array Adapter // and then bind the Array Adapter to the ListView ListView itemsOnLoanFeed = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.itemsonloanfeed); itemsOnLoanAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<Item>(this, R.layout.item, itemsOnLoan); itemsOnLoanFeed.setAdapter(itemsOnLoanAdapter); // fire up an AsyncTask to get the user's items //show the loading dialog loading = ProgressDialog.show(ItemsOnLoan.this, "", "Getting your items on loan...", true); getItemsOnLoan task = new getItemsOnLoan(ItemsOnLoan.this, "http://www.trackallthethings.com/mobile-api/items_on_loan.php?user_id=" + Main.user_id); task.execute(); Button back = (Button) findViewById(R.id.backfromloan); back.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { if (itemsOnLoanAdapter != null) itemsOnLoanAdapter.clear(); finish(); } }); } // adds an Item Object to the feed public static void addNewEntry(Item toBeAdded) { itemsOnLoan.add(toBeAdded); itemsOnLoanAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); } // AsyncTask that will get the user's items and display them on the feed class getItemsOnLoan extends AsyncTask<String, Void, JSONArray> { String URL;//URL location that will be parsed for the items Context itemsOnLoanContext; //constructor public getItemsOnLoan(Context v, String url) { URL = url; itemsOnLoanContext = v; } protected JSONArray doInBackground(String... params) { //safeguard if (URL == null || URL.equals("")) return null; JSONArray returnObject = null; //the actual code that parses the URL and tries to get the user's items try { HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(URL); HttpResponse response; response = Main.httpclient.execute(httpget); HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); InputStream in = entity.getContent(); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String input = null; try { while ((input = reader.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(input + "\n"); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { in.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } String responseString = sb.toString(); try { returnObject = new JSONArray(responseString); } catch (JSONException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } in.close(); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return returnObject; } //the JSONObject from doInBackground gets passed here for //updating the ListView protected void onPostExecute(JSONArray myItems) { // make sure the data is valid if (myItems == null || myItems.length() == 0) { loading.dismiss(); Toast.makeText(itemsOnLoanContext, "Could not get any items!", 5000).show(); return; } // traverse through JSONObject to set up Items for (int i = 0; i < myItems.length(); i++) { try { String input = (String) myItems.get(i); JSONObject inputObject = new JSONObject(input); Item toBeAdded = new Item(inputObject); addNewEntry(toBeAdded); } catch (JSONException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } loading.dismiss(); } } }