HTML Tags

[mousawi59]

Hi
When I run http-connection on S60 emulator, the result page will be displayed as HTML tags not a real web page. Do I need to install another software on the S60 or my code need to be changed. Here is the code (code copied from another forum for test):

import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
import javax.microedition.io.*;
import java.io.*;

public class HttpPOST extends MIDlet implements CommandListener 
{
  // A default URL is used. User can change it from the GUI.
  private static String defaultURL = "http://www.google.com";
  // GUI component for entering a Web URL
  private Display myDisplay = null;
  private Form mainScreen;
  private TextField requestField;
  // GUI component for displaying server responses.
  private Form resultScreen;
  private StringItem resultField;
  // the "send" button used on mainScreen
  Command sendCommand = new Command("SEND", Command.OK, 1);
  // the "back" button used on resultScreen
  Command backCommand = new Command("BACK", Command.OK, 1);
  
  public HttpPOST()
  {
    // initialize the GUI components
    myDisplay = Display.getDisplay(this);
    mainScreen = new Form("Type in a URL:");
    requestField = new TextField(null, defaultURL, 100, TextField.URL);
    mainScreen.append(requestField);
    mainScreen.addCommand(sendCommand);
    mainScreen.setCommandListener(this);
  }
  
  public void startApp() 
  {
    myDisplay.setCurrent(mainScreen);
  }
  
  public void pauseApp() { }
  
  public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) 
  {
    // help Garbage Collector
    Display myDisplay = null;
    mainScreen = null;
    requestField = null;
    resultScreen = null;
    resultField = null;
  }
  
  public void commandAction(Command c, Displayable s) 
  {
    // when user clicks on the "send" button
    if (c == sendCommand) 
    {   
      GetResponse t = new GetResponse ();
      t.setListener(this);
      t.start();

    } 
    else if (c == backCommand) 
    {
      // do it all over again
      requestField.setString(defaultURL);
      myDisplay.setCurrent(mainScreen);
    }
  }

   class GetResponse extends Thread
   {
      private CommandListener listener;
      
      public void setListener(CommandListener cl)
      {
         listener = cl;
      }
      
      public void run()
      {
         // retrieve the Web URL that user entered
         String urlstring = requestField.getString();
         // send a POST request to Web server
         String resultstring = "";
         try 
         {
           resultstring = sendPostRequest(urlstring);
         } 
         catch (IOException e) 
         {
           resultstring = "ERROR";
         }
         
         // display the message received from Web server
         resultScreen = new Form("POST Result:");
         resultField = new StringItem(null, resultstring);
         resultScreen.append(defaultURL + "\n");
         resultScreen.append(resultField);
         resultScreen.addCommand(backCommand);
         resultScreen.setCommandListener(listener);
         myDisplay.setCurrent(resultScreen);
        }
    }
  // send a POST request to Web server
  public String sendPostRequest(String urlstring) throws IOException 
  {
    HttpConnection hc = null;
    DataInputStream dis = null;
    DataOutputStream dos = null;
    String message = "";
    // the request body
    String requeststring = "i=QL";
    try 
    {
      // an HttpConnection with both read and write access
      hc = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(urlstring, Connector.READ_WRITE);
      // set the request method to POST
      hc.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST);
      //Send header information for POSt to work
      //i m getting NullPointerException here.
      //hc.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      // obtain DataOutputStream for sending the request string
      dos = hc.openDataOutputStream();
      byte[] request_body = requeststring.getBytes();
      // send request string to Web server
      for (int i = 0; i < request_body.length; i++) 
      {
        dos.write(request_body[i]);        
      }
      // flush it out
      dos.flush();
           
      // obtain DataInputStream for receiving server responses
      dis = new DataInputStream(hc.openInputStream());
      // retrieve the responses from Web server
      if (hc.getResponseCode() == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK)
         System.out.println("Response is ok.");
      int ch;
      while ((ch = dis.read()) != -1) 
      {
        message = message + (char) ch;        
      }
    } 
    finally 
    {
      // free up i/o streams and http connection
      if (hc != null) hc.close();
      if (dis != null) dis.close();
      if (dos != null) dos.close();
    }
    return message;
  }
}

[hartti]

There is no HTML rendering engine in MIDP (unless you build it yourself or use an engine built by someone else...and I do not know of any open source package for that).

You need to display the page with the phone browser. Use platformRequest(<url>) for that.

Hartti

[ypele]

Hi,
In the past there was : http://www.reqwireless.com/
They Had an Open Source API for Parsing HTML.
Nowadays, Google bought them for their new future development based over mobile...

Try Digging over the web(very very deeply) in case there is any other....