Android: Error getting a response from the server

[anu-rock]

While searching for free dictionary APIs, I stumbled upon Wordnik. And from Wordnik's site, I came to know about this awesome Java wrapper for their APIs. I immediately applied for an API key, got one within a few minutes, and set out testing API method calls.

Using knicker's latest JAR file (v2.3.2), I was successfully able to run the example code as mentioned on knicker's official website. But when I tried to run the same code in an Android app I'm developing, I couldn't get past this exception message:

net.jeremybrooks.knicker.KnickerException: Error getting a response from the server. at net.jeremybrooks.knicker.Util.doGet(Util.java:144) at net.jeremybrooks.knicker.Util.doGet(Util.java:85) at net.jeremybrooks.knicker.AccountApi.apiTokenStatus(AccountApi.java:96)

I suspected this could be because of a missing Internet permission in my app. I added the missing permission in my app's manifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

but I still kept getting the same error. Any idea what could be wrong? Do I need to add any more permissions in my app's manifest?

~ Complete list of permissions for your reference ~

[USAWal]

Probably you do network requests in the UI thread. Try to execute wordnik requests in another thread using AsyncTask, it works.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Anurag Bhandari notifications@github.comwrote:

While searching for free dictionary APIs, I stumbled upon Wordnik. And from Wordnik's site, I came to know about this awesome Java wrapper for their APIs. I immediately applied for an API key, got one within a few minutes, and set out testing API method calls.

Using knicker's latest JAR file (v2.3.2), I was successfully able to run the example code as mentioned on knicker's official websitehttp://jeremybrooks.net/knicker/. But when I tried to run the same code in an Android app I'm developing, I couldn't get past this exception message:

net.jeremybrooks.knicker.KnickerException: Error getting a response from the server. at net.jeremybrooks.knicker.Util.doGet(Util.java:144) at net.jeremybrooks.knicker.Util.doGet(Util.java:85) at net.jeremybrooks.knicker.AccountApi.apiTokenStatus(AccountApi.java:96)

I suspected this could be because of a missing Internet permission in my app. I added the missing permission in my app's manifest.xml:

but I still kept getting the same error. Any idea what could be wrong? Do I need to add any more permissions in my app's manifest?

~ Complete list of permissionshttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.htmlfor your reference ~

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/jeremybrooks/knicker/issues/3.

[anu-rock]

@USAWal Thanks a lot. It worked!

It would help if you could tell the reason behind this logic.

[USAWal]

Sure. Since Honeycomb I guess network requests rise fatal error, because of poor performance. We should reduce using main thread for slow operation. Read this article