Android JSON parsing returns null

Question

I'm Trying to connect MYSQL with android application using php and JSON files, the problem I'm facing in the moment is that JSONParser Class always return null, and I don't know why since I can view my JSON file and it's valid

and I'm also I have two exceptions in my code the first one is:

        12-08 09:17:43.486 29666-29666/alharbi.atheer.gym_managment_system E/OpenGLRenderer: Getting MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE from GradienCache
        12-08 09:17:43.498 29666-29666/alharbi.astrong texttheer.gym_managment_system E/OpenGLRenderer: MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384
        12-08 09:17:43.518 29666-29666/alharbi.atheer.gym_managment_system E/OpenGLRenderer: Getting MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE from Caches::initConstraints()
        12-08 09:17:43.522 29666-29666/alharbi.atheer.gym_managment_system E/OpenGLRenderer: MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384

The Second one is :

12-08 09:17:46.526 29666-29740/alharbi.atheer.gym_managment_system E/Buffer Error: Error converting result java.lang.NullPointerException: lock == null
12-08 09:17:46.526 29666-29740/alharbi.atheer.gym_managment_system E/JSON Parser: Error parsing data org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of

this is the class that contain the problem

public class ViewInfo extends AppCompatActivity {
    JSONParser jsonParser;
    ProgressDialog progressDialog;
    int value;
    String[] names,emails,levels,ids, weights,hieghts,genders,bds,addresses,ages,phones;
    ListView listView2;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_view_info);
        jsonParser=new JSONParser();
        listView2=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView2);

        new DisplayViewInfo().execute();
    }




    class DisplayViewInfo extends AsyncTask<String,String,String> {

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            progressDialog=new ProgressDialog(ViewInfo.this);
            progressDialog.setTitle("Wait...");
            progressDialog.show();
        }




        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... strings) {

          List<NameValuePair> list= new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
          //  HashMap<String,String> list = new HashMap<>();


            // jsonObject=jsonParser.makeHttpRequest("http://192.168.56.1/myapp/ViewInfo.php","POST",list);
           JSONObject jsonObject=jsonParser.makeHttpRequest("http://192.168.56.1/myapp/ViewInfo.php", "POST", list);


            try{
                if(jsonObject!=null && !jsonObject.isNull("value")){


                    value=jsonObject.getInt("value");
                    JSONArray jsonArray=jsonObject.getJSONArray("Customers");
                    names=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    emails=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    phones=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    ids=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    weights=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    hieghts=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    genders=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    levels=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                   ages=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    addresses=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    bds=new String[jsonArray.length()];
                    for(int i=0;i<jsonArray.length();i++){
                        JSONObject objcet=jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
                        ids[i]=objcet.getString("Customer_ID");
                        names[i]=objcet.getString("Name");
                        emails[i]=objcet.getString("Email");
                        phones[i]=objcet.getString("Phone_number");
                        weights[i]=objcet.getString("Weight");
                        hieghts[i]=objcet.getString("Height");
                        genders[i]=objcet.getString("Gender");
                        levels[i]=objcet.getString("Level");
                        ages[i]=objcet.getString("age");
                        addresses[i]=objcet.getString("address");
                        bds[i]=objcet.getString("Date_of_birth");


                    }
                }else{
                    value=0;
                }

            }catch (Exception e){
                Log.d("ERROR", e.getMessage());
            }

            return null;
        }
        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
            super.onPostExecute(s);
            if(value==1){
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Done...", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                ArrayAdapter<String> adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(ViewInfo.this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,android.R.id.text1,names);
                listView2.setAdapter(adapter);
            }else if(value==0)
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Error...",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            else Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"OUT...",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

            progressDialog.dismiss();
        }


        }





    }

This is My JSON Parser :

public class JSONParser {

static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";

// constructor
public JSONParser() {

}

// function get json from url
// by making HTTP POST or GET mehtod
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
                                  List<NameValuePair> params) {

    // Making HTTP request
    try {

        // check for request method
        if(method.equals("POST")){
            // request method is POST
            // defaultHttpClient
            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
            httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params,"utf-8"));

            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
            HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
            is = httpEntity.getContent();

        }else if(method.equals("GET")){
            // request method is GET
            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            String paramString = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "utf-8");
            url += "?" + paramString;
            HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);

            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
            HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
            is = httpEntity.getContent();
        }


    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        //e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        //  e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        //e.printStackTrace();
    }

    try {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + "\n");
        }
        is.close();
        json = sb.toString();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
    }

    // try parse the string to a JSON object
    try {
        jObj = new JSONObject(json);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
    }

    // return JSON String
    return jObj;

}

}

Can anyone please help me? I've been straggling for days because of these errors

Possible duplicate of [What is a Null Pointer Exception, and how do I fix it?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218384/what-is-a-null-pointer-exception-and-how-do-i-fix-it) — ΦXocę 웃 Пepeúpa ツ, Dec 08 '15 at 15:46
You are not getting a valid response. Check your http response code to see if you're getting `200` and check your response string before you try creating the JSONObject to make sure it's actually valid JSON. — NoChinDeluxe, Dec 08 '15 at 15:58
@drschultz can you please tell me how to check ? this is my first android and MySQL project so I don't know much about it — ZAM., Dec 08 '15 at 16:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '15 at 16:18

From the look of that JSON error, it seems like you are not getting a valid response, and your response String is just empty. When this happens, I usually check both the html response code of my web service call, as well as the actual String after I build it. This helps identify whether the web service is the problem, or if your call to the web service is the problem.

Another thing I should mention is that you are using deprecated code for your web calls. The apache http code was removed from the Android framework, and so you should be using HttpURLConnection to make web service calls instead.

I'm in a pretty good mood today, and I'm feeling helpful, so I'm just going to give you the code you should be using to get this JSON response :)

//The JSON we will get back as a response from the server
JSONObject jsonResponse = null;

//Http connections and data streams
URL url;
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = null;
OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter = null;

try {

    //open connection to the server
    url = new URL("your_url_to_web_service");
    httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

    //set request properties
    httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true); //defaults request method to POST
    httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);  //allow input to this HttpURLConnection
    httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json"); //header params
    httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json"); //header params
    httpURLConnection.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(jsonToSend.toString().getBytes().length); //header param "content-length"

    //open output stream and POST our JSON data to server
    outputStreamWriter = new OutputStreamWriter(httpURLConnection.getOutputStream());
    outputStreamWriter.write(jsonToSend.toString());
    outputStreamWriter.flush(); //flush the stream when we're finished writing to make sure all bytes get to their destination

    //prepare input buffer and get the http response from server
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    int responseCode = httpURLConnection.getResponseCode();

    //Check to make sure we got a valid status response from the server,
    //then get the server JSON response if we did.
    if(responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {

        //read in each line of the response to the input buffer
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpURLConnection.getInputStream(),"utf-8"));
        String line;
        while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
            stringBuilder.append(line).append("\n");
        }

        bufferedReader.close(); //close out the input stream

    try {
        //Copy the JSON response to a local JSONObject
        jsonResponse = new JSONObject(stringBuilder.toString());
    } catch (JSONException je) {
        je.printStackTrace();
    }

} catch (IOException ioe) {
    ioe.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    if(httpURLConnection != null) {
        httpURLConnection.disconnect(); //close out our http connection
    }

    if(outputStreamWriter != null) {
        try {
            outputStreamWriter.close(); //close our output stream
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

//Return the JSON response from the server.
return jsonResponse;

Android JSON parsing returns null

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