HTTP-library - Not receiving all requested data

[moster67]

I have some code in Basic4PPC which fetches a web-page (a URL to which I add parameters) which I thereafter use for parsing.

When trying the same in Basic4Android, it will only return the fetched page partially (it seems to fetch only the html-body) and then it stops. Same page loads nicely in B4A Webview but there is no way I can read the HTML-source in WebView for parsing the result.

In Basic4PPC I use the HTTP-library. Part of the code used to retrieve the data is as follows:

'Basic4PPC
Sub GetText
URL="http://" & main.myIPAddress & ":" & main.myport & "/getMultiEPG?ref=4097:7:0:dbe02:0:0:0:0:0:0:/var/tuxbox/config/enigma/userbouquet.dbe02.tv"

' 4097:7:0:dbe02....... is a parameter I add to the URL

response.New1
If main.UsernameToUse="" OR main.PasswordToUse ="" Then
request.New1(URL)
Else
request.New3(URL, main.UsernameToUse,main.PasswordToUse)
End If
response.Value=request.GetResponse
String=response.GetString
response.Close
Return String
End Sub

Here is a snippet of the code used in Basic4Android:

'Basic4Android
Sub GetEPGData
Dim URL_EPGDATA_E1 As String
Dim request As HttpRequest
Dim myIP As String
HttpGetEPGData.InitializeAcceptAll("HttpGetEPGData")

myIP = main.BoxIP

URL_EPGDATA_E1="http://" & myIP & ":" & main.BoxPort & "/getMultiEPG?ref=4097:7:0:dbe02:0:0:0:0:0:0:/var/tuxbox/config/enigma/userbouquet.dbe02.tv"

request.InitializeGet(URL_EPGDATA_E1)

request.Timeout = 5000
If HttpGetEPGData.ExecuteCredentials(request,1,main.BoxUser,main.BoxPassword)=False Then Return
End Sub

Sub HttpGetEPGData_ResponseSuccess (Response As HttpResponse, TaskId As Int)
Dim myEPGDataReply As String
myEPGDataReply=Response.GetString("UTF8")
Log(myEPGDataReply)
End sub

Both in B4PPC and B4A, I use Response.GetString to collect the data.

I don't know much about HTTP Post, HTTP Get and I can't understand why in B4PPC I get all data while in B4A only partial data. It seems like the two HTTP-libraries are behaving differently.

I read that in B4A the HttpRequest is asynchronous. I don't know about B4PPC. Could this be the problem? If I want to make a synchronous HttpRequest, how do I do it?

Can I use any other method to see if I can retrieve the whole amount of data? If yes, a short example would be nice since, as I already said, I don't know much about HTTP-stuff.

BTW: the B4A HTTP-library is version 1.08 which I guess is the latest

Many thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Erel]

Are you sure that the response is not complete? LogCat has some limits and it cuts long text. Print the text length and see if it is missing anything.

 

[moster67]

:sign0060:

You're a genius, Erel. I didn't know that logcat would truncate after a certain amount of characters. I populated an EditText with my data and it worked as expected.

I tend to use logcat a lot and when I only noted partial data in the log, I thought it was something wrong with my code.

BTW: are you working on debugging tools (execute code step by step, breakpoints and so on)?

Thanks.

 

[Erel]

BTW: are you working on debugging tools (execute code step by step, breakpoints and so on)?

It is high on the features list.