Why am I getting this error Premature end of file?

Question

I am trying to parse an XML response, but I am failing miserably. I thought initially that the xml was just not being returned in the response, so

Answer 1

Use inputstream once don't use it multiple times and Do inputstream.close()

Answer 2

When you do this,

while((inputLine = buff_read.readLine())!= null){
        System.out.println(inputLine);
    }

You consume everything in instream, so instream is empty. Now when try to do this,

Document doc = builder.parse(instream);

The parsing will fail, because you have passed it an empty stream.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I came across the same error, and could easily find what was the problem by logging the exception:

documentBuilder.setErrorHandler(new ErrorHandler() {
    @Override
    public void warning(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
        log.warn(exception.getMessage());
    }

    @Override
    public void fatalError(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
        log.error("Fatal error ", exception);
    }

    @Override
    public void error(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
        log.error("Exception ", exception);
    }
});

Or, instead of logging the error, you can throw it and catch it where you handle the entries, so you can print the entry itself to get a better indication on the error.

Answer 5

I resolved the issue by converting the source feed from http://www.news18.com/rss/politics.xml to https://www.news18.com/rss/politics.xml

with http below code was creating an empty file which was causing the issue down the line

    String feedUrl = "https://www.news18.com/rss/politics.xml"; 
    File feedXmlFile = null;

    try {
    feedXmlFile =new File("C://opinionpoll/newsFeed.xml");
    FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL(feedUrl),feedXmlFile);


          DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
          Document doc = dBuilder.parse(feedXmlFile);

Answer 6

You are getting the error because the SAXBuilder is not intelligent enough to deal with "blank states". So it looks for at least an <xml ..> declaration, and when that causes a no data response it creates the exception you see rather than report the empty state.