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/**
 *  2014 Brien Coffield
 *
 * This file is subject to the terms and conditions defined in
 * file 'LICENSE', which is part of this source code package.
 */
package com.eyekabob.util;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpRequestBase;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.util.Log;

public abstract class JSONTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, JSONObject> {
    private String requestType;

    public JSONTask() {
        super();
    }

    public JSONTask(String requestType) {
        super();
        this.requestType = requestType;
    }

    protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... uris) {
        return doRequest(uris[0]);
    }

    public JSONObject doRequest(String uri) {
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpRequestBase request = null;
        if ("POST".equals(requestType)) {
            request = new HttpPost(uri);
        } else {
            request = new HttpGet(uri);
        }
        StringBuffer sb = null;

        try {
            HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
            sb = new StringBuffer();
            String line = null;
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line);
            }
            in.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        // should this be initialized to an empty json object?
        JSONObject result = null;

        try {
            result = new JSONObject(sb.toString());
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            Log.e(getClass().getName(), "Error parsing json response", e);
        }

        return result;
    }
}