I'm working on a project and have encountered a problem. I am trying to parse html using html cleaner and then use xpath to return a string. I made it return a stacktrace if it found an error (Which it did). I really have no idea how to go about debugging it based on the stack trace. Here's the code.
package ru.habrahabr.stackparser;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import org.htmlcleaner.TagNode;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.*;
public class stackParser extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.parse);
button.setOnClickListener(myListener);
}
private ProgressDialog pd;
private OnClickListener myListener = new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
pd = ProgressDialog.show(stackParser.this, "Working...",
"request to server", true, false);
new parseSite()
.execute("http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/3_Gate_Robo");
}
};
private class parseSite extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
protected String doInBackground(String... arg) {
String output = new String();
try {
htmlHelper hh = new htmlHelper(new URL(arg[0]));
output = hh.htmlHelper(arg[0]);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return output;
}
protected void onPostExecute(String output) {
pd.dismiss();
TextView view = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv1);
view.setText(output);
}
}
Here's my HTML helper class
package ru.habrahabr.stackparser;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.htmlcleaner.CleanerProperties;
import org.htmlcleaner.HtmlCleaner;
import org.htmlcleaner.TagNode;
import org.htmlcleaner.XPatherException;
public class htmlHelper {
TagNode rootNode;
public htmlHelper(URL url) {
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
public String htmlHelper(String arg) throws IOException, XPatherException
{
CleanerProperties props = new CleanerProperties();
// set some properties to non-default values
props.setTranslateSpecialEntities(true);
props.setTransResCharsToNCR(true);
props.setOmitComments(true);
HtmlCleaner cleaner = new HtmlCleaner(props);
rootNode = cleaner.clean(arg);
Object[] nodes = rootNode.evaluateXPath("//h1[@id='firstHeading']");
String things = nodes.toString();
return things;
}
The UI and loading bar work fine but the TextView keeps returning [Ljava.lang.Object;@42455a88
I'd really appreciate some help with this...i've wrestled with it all day and can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!
I figured it out. The Xpath query was referring to the DOM tree in the XML document. So, in order to avoid a throws, the DOM tree needs to be initialized after cleaning. Then the Xpath will work.