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i am new at blackberry., I used blackberry 9800 simulator to create an HTTP connection. I wrote following code.

    public MyScreen()
{        
    // Set the displayed title of the screen       
    setTitle("Hello");
    ConnectionFactory connFact = new ConnectionFactory();
    ConnectionDescriptor connDesc;
    connDesc = connFact.getConnection("http://whistlersbest.net/api/categories.php?parent_id=0");
    System.out.println("hello " + connFact);
    if (connDesc != null)
    {
        HttpConnection httpConn;
        httpConn = (HttpConnection)connDesc.getConnection();
        try
        {
            in = httpConn.openInputStream();

            int ii;
            while((ii=in.read()) != -1){

              strbuffer = strbuffer + (char)ii;
            }
         } 
         catch (IOException e) 
         {
           System.err.println("Caught IOException: " 
                + e.getMessage());
         }
    }
    setTitle("Whistlers Best");
    System.out.println("set Title");
    xmlHandler xm = new xmlHandler(strbuffer);
    category = xm.getCategory();
    System.out.println("category set");
    String[] arr = new String[category.getIds().size()];
    System.out.println("Array " + arr.length);
    list = new ObjectListField(){
        protected boolean navigationClick(int status, int time) {
            //UiApplication.getUiApplication().pushScreen(new SubCategories(category.getIds().elementAt(list.getSelectedIndex()).toString(),"1",category.getNames().elementAt(list.getSelectedIndex()).toString()));
            return false;

        }

    };
    for(int y = 0; y<category.getIds().size() ; y++){
        arr[y] = (String)category.getNames().elementAt(y);
        System.out.println("string: "+arr[y]);
    }


    list.set(arr);
    VerticalFieldManager hfm = new VerticalFieldManager(Manager.FIELD_HCENTER);
    hfm.add(new LabelField("Categories",
            Field.FIELD_HCENTER));
    hfm.add(list);
    list.setChangeListener(this);
    add(hfm);

}

It works perfectly. But suddenly I need to switch from Blackberry 9800 to Blackberry 8900 Curve. I use simulator and write the same code to that. But I got NullPointerException at line:

connDesc = connFact.getConnection("http://whistlersbest.net/api/categories.php?parent_id=0");

Where I am wrong?

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1 Answers

1
votes

ConnectionFactory.getConnection() is supported after version 5. Is Blackberry 8900 version is 5.x or 4.x? I think it is 4.x.

You can try this: HTTPConnection httpConnector = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(url);

And to get response: httpConnector.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.GET); InputStream in = httpConnector.openInputStream();