Java Development

[jd15]

I've seen posts on issues with retrieving XML and retrieving gzip data. Seperately, i have no problem doing either. But i am unable to send a gzipinputstream to my xml parser  - it just throws exception and says no stack trace.

I send a parameter in my http request that determines if the server should return an XML file or the gziped XML file.  when NOT requesting gzip, i can read and parse fine. if i request gzip and just read steam like this ... 

                byte[] data = new byte[256];
                int len = 0;
                int size = 0;
                StringBuffer raw = new StringBuffer();
                
                while ( -1 != (len = inputStream.read(data)) )
                {
                    raw.append(new String(data, 0, len));
                    size += len;
                }

it prints out just like my xml ... so i would assume it means its able to recieve the gzip data fine.

However, if i request gzip and try to parse using the same code that works when i just parse an xml, it fails.  Is there another step i need to do to convert the inputstream so the xml handler can read it?

httpConnection = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(url);
inputStream = httpConnection.openDataInputStream();
			
if(httpConnection.getResponseCode() == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK)
{

	inputStream = new GZIPInputStream(inputStream);
	InputSource is = new InputSource(inputStream);
	
	is.setEncoding(desiredEncoding);

	SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
	SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();

	DefaultHandler hcHandler = new XMLParse();

	parser.parse(is,hcHandler);

} //end if(httpConnection.getResponseCode() == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK)

[RexDoug · Accepted solution]

 you should check to see if the content is gzip:

                String encoding = m_httpConnection.getHeaderField("Content-Encoding");
                if ((encoding != null) && (encoding.indexOf("gzip") != -1)){
                    compressed = true;
                }

Then, unzip it:

            if (compressed){
                GZIPInputStream gzip = new GZIPInputStream(dataInputStream);
                DataInputStream tmp = new DataInputStream(gzip);
                dataInputStream = tmp;
            }

Now you can safely parse the XML.

[jd15]

yup this works, thanks. unfortunately it appears gzip doesnt seem to solve my problem ... it appears it may be my xml parser thats taking a long time and not the http transfer. or more likely im just doing somethig else wrong.

[bala_eventurers]

how to parse an xml in BB i m wondering to do xml parser in strom device

[bala_eventurers]

can anyone help me to do xml parser using BB rim api's

[jd15]

@bala_eventurers: have you looked at the xmldemo?  i just used that as a template for mine.