Problem fetching XML file in Java

Question

I am trying to use Google\'s unofficial weather API in an Android Application.

I use this code:

//get the text from the edit text
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Answer 1

I think you need to open the connection with the url and get the inputstream for this to work. I would try this:

 URL googleWeatherService = null;
 URLConnection conn = null;
try {
    googleWeatherService = new URL(link);
    conn = googleWeatherService.openConnection();
} catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e1.printStackTrace();
} 
SAXBuilder parser = new SAXBuilder();
try {
    doc = parser.build(conn.getInputStream());

Hopefully this does the trick for you!

Otherwise if this fails, it sounds like you're having to deal with URL redirects, which is a problem i used to have. You would need to do the following in that case:

 URL googleWeatherService = null;
 URLConnection conn = null;
try {
googleWeatherService = new URL(link);
HttpURLConnection ucon = (HttpURLConnection) googleWeatherService.openConnection();
ucon.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);
URL secondURL = new URL(ucon.getHeaderField("Location"));
conn = secondURL.openConnection();
} catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e1.printStackTrace();
} 
SAXBuilder parser = new SAXBuilder();
try {
    doc = parser.build(conn.getInputStream());

Hope this solves it!