[bindiamariam]

Hi All,

I am facing an issue in httpconnection on the black berry emulator. The application is able to make a connection and write to the output stream. After writing, it hangs at the flush(). Once I remove the writer.flush(), it hangs at the next statement i.e. where I try to get the resopnseCode. The server is receiving the request and sending the response back. Initially I had the J2ME code (with MIDlet), which works fine, now I am using RIM APIs in the application. I have started a new thread to connect to the server. Still the application is hanging. Any pointers will help.

public HTTPResponseVO sendMessage(HTTPRequestVO httpRequestVO) throws Exception {
        /* Response message from server */
        String responseMessage = "";
        /* Initialising a InputStream */
        InputStream inputStream = null;
        /* Initialising a OutputStream */
        OutputStream outputStream = null;
        /* Initialising a HttpConnection */
        HttpConnection httpConnection = null;
        int responseCode = 0;
        try {
            /*
             * Opening a connection to the server to the url specified in
             * httpRequest
             */
            httpConnection = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(httpRequestVO.url);
            if (httpConnectionMethodType.equals("POST")) {
                /* Setting the http connection method */
                httpConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            } else {
                /* Setting the http connection method */
                httpConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            }
            /* Setting the header properties for the connection */
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("If-Modified-Since", ifModifiedSince);
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Connection", connection);
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Connection", proxyConnection);
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "BlackBerry/3.2.1");
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", contentLanguage);
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            throw new Exception("Error in connection");
        }
        if (httpConnection != null) {
            try {
                /* Opening an output stream */
                outputStream = httpConnection.openOutputStream();
                if (outputStream != null) {
                    OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, "UTF-8");
                    writer.write(httpRequestVO.message);
                     //writer.flush();
                     writer.close();
                     outputStream.close();
                } else {
                    throw new Exception("outputStream is null");
                }
                System.out.println("waiting for responseCode :");
                /* Getting the response code of the connection */
                responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();
                System.out.println("responseCode :" + responseCode);
                /* If response code is not OK throw SSEInternalException */
                if (responseCode != HttpConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                    throw new Exception("HttpConnection. not OK");
                }
                inputStream = httpConnection.openInputStream();
                if (inputStream != null) {
                    InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8");
                    /*
                     * Getting the number of bytes that can be read from the
                     * input stream
                     */
                    int readCharacter;
                    /* Creating a new byte array of size totalLength */
                    StringBuffer responseBuffer = new StringBuffer();
                    while ((readCharacter = reader.read()) != -1) {
                        responseBuffer.append((char) readCharacter);
                    }
                    /* Converting the received bytes to string */
                    responseMessage = new String(responseBuffer);
                } else {
                    throw new Exception("inputStream null");
                }
            } catch (IOException io) {
                throw new Exception(io.getMessage());
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                throw new Exception(ex.getMessage());
            } finally {
                try {
                    if (outputStream != null) {
                        /* Closing the output stream */
                        outputStream.close();
                    }
                    if (inputStream != null) {
                        /* Closing the input stream */
                        inputStream.close();
                    }
                    if (httpConnection != null) {
                        /* Closing the http connection */
                        httpConnection.close();
                    }
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                    throw new Exception(ex.getMessage());
                }
            }
        }
        /*
         * Return a new instance of HTTPResponseVO with the response   message and
         * response code
         */
        return new HTTPResponseVO(responseMessage, responseCode);
    }

Thanks
Bindia Baby

[Dougsg38p]

HTTPConnection.getHTTPResponseCode() actually forces the flush.

Do you have MDS running? What connection parameter string are you using? Did you try setting a Timeout parameter? It could be that the connection is simply failing.

[bindiamariam]

I had my MDS running when the connection was failing. The server was sending the response but the client was not able to read it. Now I resolved the issue on emulator by giving the parameter deviceside=true in the URL. Now I have a doubt, should I be using the same parameter on the device or should I use the default, deviceside=false. As I understand if I give deviceside=true the MDS will be bypassed to make the connection, but when I was using a MIDlet the normal connection was working with MDS but when I created a UIApplication it started failing, Any pointers?

[Dougsg38p]

With MDS/BES, you should not be setting any "deviceside" parameter.

If the server is responding but the client is not receiving the response, you might have an "Accept" type issue. If you set a particular "Accept" header (like text/xml), and the response comes back with a different content type, MDS will eat the response and return a 406 error.

Try turning on verbose logging in your MDS simulator. This gives you the actualy details between MDS and the client.