android getSharedPreferences error: Map value without name attribute: boolean

Question

I am trying to figure out the cause of this error it occurs on startup when i try to get the shared preferences for the app. the code is just:

settings = this.getSha

Answer 1

In my case

public static String docsDownloadStatus;

    SharedPreferences sharedPref = context.getSharedPreferences(
            "Pref-Values", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedPref.edit();
>>>>    editor.putString(docsDownloadStatus, value);
    editor.commit();

"docsDownloadStatus" is not initialized because of this whole shared pref file was corrupted. After initializing docsDownloadStatus key everything worked fine.

Answer 2

Are you able to reproduce this on emulator? If yes, then you could extract the prefs file using Eclipse DDMS tools to investigate the contents of the prefs file.

Answer 3

thanks for the tip. the prefs file was

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<map>
<boolean value="false" />
<boolean name="initialised" value="true" />
<boolean name="upd.auto" value="true" />
<long name="backup.last" value="1300662039054" />
<string name="msg.read">0.995.18Beta</string>
</map>

turns out i was writing a null preference name to the prefs - so the error was correct - though I don't think the API should let you do that since the prefs cant be read after that.

anyways, a bit of a schoolboy error, but got there ...

thanks for the quick reply, rob