Reputation: 562
I've just entered into the world of firebase and android. I followed online tutorials to set and get non-nested data and display those in a listview as follows:
Before Data:
mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.ListView) ;
final ArrayAdapter<String> arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, mStudents);
mListView.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);
FirebaseDatabase database = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
myRef = database.getReference().child("Student1");
myRef.addChildEventListener(new ChildEventListener() {
@Override
public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
String value = dataSnapshot.getValue(String.class);
String key = dataSnapshot.getKey();
String totl = key + ": " + value;
mStudents.add(totl);
arrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
});
I added a Grades field with sub-fields to the database. I want to display the entire student1 data along with the grades. When I try running the above code. I get the following error.
After Data:
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.adcpnmd.mystudents, PID: 3524
com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseException: Failed to convert value of type java.util.HashMap to String
at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzbqi.zzaD(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzbqi.zzb(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzbqi.zza(Unknown Source)
at com.google.firebase.database.DataSnapshot.getValue(Unknown Source)
at com.adcpnmd.mystudents.Main$1.onChildAdded(Main.java:39)
at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzblz.zza(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzbnz.zzYj(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzboc$1.run(Unknown Source)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755)
What should I do for accessing the entire data and adding to my ListView ? Or Am I structuring the data incorrectly ?
Thanks in Advance.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 9046
Reputation: 2135
Try to change your firebase code like this:
myRef = database.getReference().child("Student1").child("Grades");
myRef.addChildEventListener(new ChildEventListener() {
@Override
public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
if (dataSnapshot.exists()) {
String value = dataSnapshot.getValue(String.class);
String key = dataSnapshot.getKey();
String totl = key + ": " + value;
mStudents.add(totl);
arrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
}
});
Update
To access the entire node Student1
, you can do this way:
First of all, I've renamed your Class
field as Course
, because Class
could generate confusion and problems (it is used by Android itself). So create a Java file Student.java
with the plain object that represents your data:
public class Student {
private String Course;
private String Name;
private String Percentile;
private HashMap<String,String> Grades;
public Student() {
}
public Student(String course, String name, String percentile, HashMap<String, String> grades) {
Course = course;
Name = name;
Percentile = percentile;
Grades = grades;
}
public String getCourse() {
return Course;
}
public String getName() {
return Name;
}
public String getPercentile() {
return Percentile;
}
public HashMap<String, String> getGrades() {
return Grades;
}
}
Next, to get the data, do this way:
ValueEventListener valueEventListener = new ValueEventListener() {
@Override
public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
Student student = dataSnapshot.getValue(Student.class);
Log.d("TAG","name: "+student.getName());
Log.d("TAG","percentile: "+student.getPercentile());
Iterator it = student.getGrades().entrySet().iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
Map.Entry pair = (Map.Entry)it.next();
Log.d("TAG","grade: "+pair.getKey() + " = " + pair.getValue());
it.remove(); // avoids a ConcurrentModificationException
}
}
@Override
public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
}
};
myRef = database.getReference().child("Student1");
myRef.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(valueEventListener);
Upvotes: 6