If I have this background worker file in my android application and it gets data from my database how can I pass the string 'result' to another class? The background worker connects to my server and then using php it connects to a database.
public class BackgroundWorker extends AsyncTask<String,Void,String> {
Context context;
AlertDialog alertDialog;
BackgroundWorker (Context ctx) {
context = ctx;
}
@Override
public String doInBackground(String... params) {
String type = params[0];
String specials_url = "";
if(type.equals("venue click")) {
try {
//String user_name = params[1];
URL url = new URL(specials_url);
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
OutputStream outputStream = httpURLConnection.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, "UTF-8"));
// String post_data = URLEncoder.encode("user_name","UTF-8")+"="+URLEncoder.encode(user_name,"UTF-8");
// bufferedWriter.write(post_data);
bufferedWriter.flush();
bufferedWriter.close();
outputStream.close();
InputStream inputStream = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream,"iso-8859-1"));
String result="";
String line="";
while((line = bufferedReader.readLine())!= null) {
result += line;
}
bufferedReader.close();
inputStream.close();
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
return result;
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return null;
}
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(context).create();
alertDialog.setTitle("Info");
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
alertDialog.setMessage(result);
alertDialog.show();
// String temp = "login success";
// if (result.equals(temp)) {
// Intent intent = new Intent(context, Register.class);
// context.startActivity(intent);
// }
}
@Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
super.onProgressUpdate(values);
}
}
You need a listener. This will allow you to notify back when the AsyncTask is done.
Define the listener by creating an interface, like this:
public interface IListener
{
void onCompletedTask(String result);
}
On the task store a reference to the listener.
private IListener mListener;
// Pass the reference to the constructor.
public BackgroundWorker(IListener listener)
{
mListener = listener;
}
Then you notify the listener like this.
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result)
{
mListener.onCompletedTask(result);
}
Best way to get a callback from background thread is to use interfaces as a callback from AsyncTask for example:
create an interface that can be called in onPostExecute()
public interface ResponseCallback {
void onRespond(String result);
}
and before calling asynckTask define it like this:
ResponseCallback cpk = new ResponseCallback() {
@Override
public void onRespond(String result) {
//code to be done after calling it from onPostExecute
}
};
and pass cpk to the constructor of of the asynckTask and call it in onPostExecute like that:
if(cpk!=null){
cpk.onRespond(result);
}
of course you can modify the signature of the interface to what ever you want.