I'm working on an Android application where one of the features is to let the user choose a file to open (I'm wanting to open a plain text .txt file). I've worked on Android apps before with Java, but for this one, I'm using Kotlin, and it's my first time using Kotlin.
I currently have the app display a file chooser and let the user tap the file they want to open. Then I'm trying to use a File object to open the file and do a forEachLine loop. But for some reason, it's throwing a java.io.FileNotFoundException (No such file or directory) with the file chosen from the file picker. I'm not sure what's wrong, and if I have to do some conversion to convert the file path?
The code for my 'load' button:
val btn_load: Button = findViewById<Button>(R.id.btn_load_puzzle)
btn_load.setOnClickListener {
val intent = Intent()
.setType("*/*")
.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT)
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select a file"), 111)
}
My function to respond to the file selection:
override fun onActivityResult(requestCode: Int, resultCode: Int, data: Intent?) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)
// Selected a file to load
if ((requestCode == 111) && (resultCode == RESULT_OK)) {
val selectedFilename = data?.data //The uri with the location of the file
if (selectedFilename != null) {
val filenameURIStr = selectedFilename.toString()
if (filenameURIStr.endsWith(".txt", true)) {
val msg = "Chosen file: " + filenameURIStr
val toast = Toast.makeText(applicationContext, msg, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
toast.show()
File(selectedFilename.getPath()).forEachLine {
val toast = Toast.makeText(applicationContext, it, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
toast.show()
}
}
else {
val msg = "The chosen file is not a .txt file!"
val toast = Toast.makeText(applicationContext, msg, Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
toast.show()
}
}
else {
val msg = "Null filename data received!"
val toast = Toast.makeText(applicationContext, msg, Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
toast.show()
}
}
}
The FileNotFound exception is thrown on the line where it creates the File object to do the forEachLine loop:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=111, result=-1, data=Intent { dat=content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/0000-0000:Sudoku puzzles/hard001.txt flg=0x1 }} to activity {com.example.sudokusolver/com.example.sudokusolver.MainActivity}: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /document/0000-0000:Sudoku puzzles/hard001.txt (No such file or directory)