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androidnullpointerexceptioninputstreamhttpurlconnection
Saqib
Saqib

Reputation: 1747

Android HttpUrlConnection getInputStream throws NullPointerException

I am trying to download the image from this url:

https://hme_player_pictures.s3.amazonaws.com/test-512813ed3b83286c72f376c7-thumb100.jpg

here is stack trace:

03-21 12:58:04.040: W/System.err(7084): java.lang.NullPointerException
03-21 12:58:04.040: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection$Address.hashCode(HttpConnection.java:343)
03-21 12:58:04.045: W/System.err(7084):     at java.util.HashMap.get(HashMap.java:298)
03-21 12:58:04.050: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnectionPool.get(HttpConnectionPool.java:67)
03-21 12:58:04.050: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.connect(HttpConnection.java:128)
03-21 12:58:04.050: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.openSocketConnection(HttpEngine.java:308)
03-21 12:58:04.055: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine.makeSslConnection(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:460)
03-21 12:58:04.055: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:432)
03-21 12:58:04.055: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendSocketRequest(HttpEngine.java:282)
03-21 12:58:04.060: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:232)
03-21 12:58:04.065: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:273)
03-21 12:58:04.065: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:168)
03-21 12:58:04.070: W/System.err(7084):     at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:270)
03-21 12:58:04.070: W/System.err(7084): ...

code:

URL imageUrl = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection c = (HttpURLConnection)imageUrl.openConnection();
InputStream in = c.getInputStream(); // Nullpointer exception on this line, c is definitely not null, I debugged

Can't figure out why it is throwing NullPointerException. The above url does work in the browser.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5227

Answers (2)

Saqib
Saqib

Reputation: 1747

As suspected issue was with host name of url of amazon s3.

so I changed

https://hme_player_pictures.s3.amazonaws.com/test-512813ed3b83286c72f376c7-thumb100.jpg

to

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hme_player_pictures/test-512813ed3b83286c72f376c7-thumb100.jpg

and it worked. My Java code is happy now!

Upvotes: 1

Sean Owen
Sean Owen

Reputation: 66881

For what it's worth, I see a lot of errors from within the Android HTTP library. From Barcode Scanner I get stack traces from across about 35M people, and so I think I've seen one of everything. Here's all the weird stuff we just catch and swallow in the app, below. I recommend you work around it as a platform bug and fail gracefully.

https://code.google.com/p/zxing/source/browse/trunk/android/src/com/google/zxing/client/android/HttpHelper.java

  private static int safelyConnect(String uri, HttpURLConnection connection) throws IOException {
    try {
      connection.connect();
    } catch (NullPointerException npe) {
      // this is an Android bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16895
      Log.w(TAG, "Bad URI? " + uri);
      throw new IOException(npe.toString());
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException iae) {
      // Also seen this in the wild, not sure what to make of it. Probably a bad URL
      Log.w(TAG, "Bad URI? " + uri);
      throw new IOException(iae.toString());
    } catch (SecurityException se) {
      // due to bad VPN settings?
      Log.w(TAG, "Restricted URI? " + uri);
      throw new IOException(se.toString());
    } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException ioobe) {
      // Another Android problem? https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-admob-ads-sdk/U-WfmYa9or0
      Log.w(TAG, "Bad URI? " + uri);
      throw new IOException(ioobe.toString());
    }
    try {
      return connection.getResponseCode();
    } catch (NullPointerException npe) {
      // this is maybe this Android bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15554
      Log.w(TAG, "Bad URI? " + uri);
      throw new IOException(npe.toString());
    } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
      // Again seen this in the wild for bad header fields in the server response!
      Log.w(TAG, "Bad server status? " + uri);
      throw new IOException(nfe.toString());
    }
  }

Upvotes: 3

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