I have a problem with my android application. I am trying to make the users fill out a form in the application and send their responses to a Google form online, which would record the responses in a Google spreadsheet. Everything seems fine in the application itself and I encounter no errors there, but only the timestamp shows in the response spreadsheet and no text.
This is my code for the postData method:
public void postData(){
String url = getString(R.string.post_URL);
String name = "testname";
Log.i("test",name);
String lunch = "testlunch";
Log.i("test", lunch);
String vegetarian="testveg";
Log.i("test",vegetarian);
String allergies = "testaler";
Log.i("test",allergies);
String special = "testspec";
Log.i("test",special);
HttpRequest request = new HttpRequest();
try {
String data = R.string.entry_name + URLEncoder.encode(name, "UTF-8") + "&" +
R.string.entry_lunch + URLEncoder.encode(lunch, "UTF-8") + "&" +
R.string.entry_vegetarian + URLEncoder.encode(vegetarian, "UTF-8") + "&" +
R.string.entry_allergies + URLEncoder.encode(allergies, "UTF-8") + "&" +
R.string.entry_special + URLEncoder.encode(special,"UTF-8");
String response = request.sendPost(url,data);
Log.i("response",response);
}
catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e){
Log.d("Unsupported exception", e.toString());
}}
I'm using this URL of the google form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XPaQe0j86XwcxbO13uxZRawCwUexyJMHdPlPLoQaD1A/formResponse
For the entries, I am using strings formatted like this:
entry.569049980
This is how I call the function (only temporarily):
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
new Connection().execute();
}
private class Connection extends AsyncTask {
@Override
protected Object doInBackground(Object...arg0){
postData();
return null;
}
The HttpRequest file, which I am using comes from here
import android.util.Log;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.params.ClientPNames;
import org.apache.http.client.params.CookiePolicy;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpConnectionParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
/*
* This helper class was created by StackOverflow user: MattC https://stackoverflow.com/users/21126/mattc
* IT was posted as an Answer to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2253061/secure-http-post-in-android
*/
public class HttpRequest {
DefaultHttpClient httpClient;
HttpContext localContext;
private String ret;
HttpResponse response = null;
HttpPost httpPost = null;
HttpGet httpGet = null;
public HttpRequest(){
HttpParams myParams = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(myParams, 10000);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(myParams, 10000);
httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(myParams);
localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
}
public void clearCookies() {
httpClient.getCookieStore().clear();
}
public void abort() {
try {
if (httpClient != null) {
System.out.println("Abort.");
httpPost.abort();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Your App Name Here" + e);
}
}
public String sendPost(String url, String data) {
return sendPost(url, data, null);
}
public String sendJSONPost(String url, JSONObject data) {
return sendPost(url, data.toString(), "application/json");
}
public String sendPost(String url, String data, String contentType) {
ret = null;
// httpClient.getParams().setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.RFC_2109);
httpClient.getParams().setParameter( ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY,
CookiePolicy.NETSCAPE );
httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
response = null;
StringEntity tmp = null;
Log.d("Your App Name Here", "Setting httpPost headers");
httpPost.setHeader("User-Agent", "SET YOUR USER AGENT STRING HERE");
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "text/html,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*;q=0.5");
if (contentType != null) {
httpPost.setHeader("Content-Type", contentType);
} else {
httpPost.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
}
try {
tmp = new StringEntity(data,"UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
Log.e("Your App Name Here", "HttpUtils : UnsupportedEncodingException : " + e);
}
httpPost.setEntity(tmp);
Log.d("Your App Name Here", url + "?" + data);
try {
response = httpClient.execute(httpPost,localContext);
if (response != null) {
ret = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Your App Name Here", "HttpUtils: " + e);
}
Log.d("Your App Name Here", "Returning value:" + ret);
return ret;
}
public String sendGet(String url) {
httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
try {
response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Your App Name Here", e.getMessage());
}
//int status = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
// we assume that the response body contains the error message
try {
ret = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e("Your App Name Here", e.getMessage());
}
return ret;
}
public InputStream getHttpStream(String urlString) throws IOException {
InputStream in = null;
int response = -1;
URL url = new URL(urlString);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
if (!(conn instanceof HttpURLConnection))
throw new IOException("Not an HTTP connection");
try{
HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) conn;
httpConn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
httpConn.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
httpConn.setRequestMethod("GET");
httpConn.connect();
response = httpConn.getResponseCode();
if (response == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
in = httpConn.getInputStream();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new IOException("Error connecting");
} // end try-catch
return in;
}
}
Do I need to use the Drive API or can I make some modifications to make this work? (This seems to be much easier and I am not experienced at all with the Drive API)
