Android example source code file (SimpleWikiHelper.java)

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The SimpleWikiHelper.java Android example source code

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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package com.example.android.simplewiktionary;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.StatusLine;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.pm.PackageInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.util.Log;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Helper methods to simplify talking with and parsing responses from a
 * lightweight Wiktionary API. Before making any requests, you should call
 * {@link #prepareUserAgent(Context)} to generate a User-Agent string based on
 * your application package name and version.
 */
public class SimpleWikiHelper {
    private static final String TAG = "SimpleWikiHelper";

    /**
     * Regular expression that splits "Word of the day" entry into word
     * name, word type, and the first description bullet point.
     */
    public static final String WORD_OF_DAY_REGEX =
            "(?s)\\{\\{wotd\\|(.+?)\\|(.+?)\\|([^#\\|]+).*?\\}\\}";

    /**
     * Partial URL to use when requesting the detailed entry for a specific
     * Wiktionary page. Use {@link String#format(String, Object...)} to insert
     * the desired page title after escaping it as needed.
     */
    private static final String WIKTIONARY_PAGE =
            "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=%s&" +
            "rvprop=content&format=json%s";

    /**
     * Partial URL to append to {@link #WIKTIONARY_PAGE} when you want to expand
     * any templates found on the requested page. This is useful when browsing
     * full entries, but may use more network bandwidth.
     */
    private static final String WIKTIONARY_EXPAND_TEMPLATES =
            "&rvexpandtemplates=true";

    /**
     * {@link StatusLine} HTTP status code when no server error has occurred.
     */
    private static final int HTTP_STATUS_OK = 200;

    /**
     * Shared buffer used by {@link #getUrlContent(String)} when reading results
     * from an API request.
     */
    private static byte[] sBuffer = new byte[512];

    /**
     * User-agent string to use when making requests. Should be filled using
     * {@link #prepareUserAgent(Context)} before making any other calls.
     */
    private static String sUserAgent = null;

    /**
     * Thrown when there were problems contacting the remote API server, either
     * because of a network error, or the server returned a bad status code.
     */
    public static class ApiException extends Exception {
        public ApiException(String detailMessage, Throwable throwable) {
            super(detailMessage, throwable);
        }

        public ApiException(String detailMessage) {
            super(detailMessage);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Thrown when there were problems parsing the response to an API call,
     * either because the response was empty, or it was malformed.
     */
    public static class ParseException extends Exception {
        public ParseException(String detailMessage, Throwable throwable) {
            super(detailMessage, throwable);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Prepare the internal User-Agent string for use. This requires a
     * {@link Context} to pull the package name and version number for this
     * application.
     */
    public static void prepareUserAgent(Context context) {
        try {
            // Read package name and version number from manifest
            PackageManager manager = context.getPackageManager();
            PackageInfo info = manager.getPackageInfo(context.getPackageName(), 0);
            sUserAgent = String.format(context.getString(R.string.template_user_agent),
                    info.packageName, info.versionName);

        } catch(NameNotFoundException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "Couldn't find package information in PackageManager", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Read and return the content for a specific Wiktionary page. This makes a
     * lightweight API call, and trims out just the page content returned.
     * Because this call blocks until results are available, it should not be
     * run from a UI thread.
     *
     * @param title The exact title of the Wiktionary page requested.
     * @param expandTemplates If true, expand any wiki templates found.
     * @return Exact content of page.
     * @throws ApiException If any connection or server error occurs.
     * @throws ParseException If there are problems parsing the response.
     */
    public static String getPageContent(String title, boolean expandTemplates)
            throws ApiException, ParseException {
        // Encode page title and expand templates if requested
        String encodedTitle = Uri.encode(title);
        String expandClause = expandTemplates ? WIKTIONARY_EXPAND_TEMPLATES : "";

        // Query the API for content
        String content = getUrlContent(String.format(WIKTIONARY_PAGE,
                encodedTitle, expandClause));
        try {
            // Drill into the JSON response to find the content body
            JSONObject response = new JSONObject(content);
            JSONObject query = response.getJSONObject("query");
            JSONObject pages = query.getJSONObject("pages");
            JSONObject page = pages.getJSONObject((String) pages.keys().next());
            JSONArray revisions = page.getJSONArray("revisions");
            JSONObject revision = revisions.getJSONObject(0);
            return revision.getString("*");
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            throw new ParseException("Problem parsing API response", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Pull the raw text content of the given URL. This call blocks until the
     * operation has completed, and is synchronized because it uses a shared
     * buffer {@link #sBuffer}.
     *
     * @param url The exact URL to request.
     * @return The raw content returned by the server.
     * @throws ApiException If any connection or server error occurs.
     */
    protected static synchronized String getUrlContent(String url) throws ApiException {
        if (sUserAgent == null) {
            throw new ApiException("User-Agent string must be prepared");
        }

        // Create client and set our specific user-agent string
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
        request.setHeader("User-Agent", sUserAgent);

        try {
            HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

            // Check if server response is valid
            StatusLine status = response.getStatusLine();
            if (status.getStatusCode() != HTTP_STATUS_OK) {
                throw new ApiException("Invalid response from server: " +
                        status.toString());
            }

            // Pull content stream from response
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
            InputStream inputStream = entity.getContent();

            ByteArrayOutputStream content = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            // Read response into a buffered stream
            int readBytes = 0;
            while ((readBytes = inputStream.read(sBuffer)) != -1) {
                content.write(sBuffer, 0, readBytes);
            }

            // Return result from buffered stream
            return new String(content.toByteArray());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new ApiException("Problem communicating with API", e);
        }
    }
}