I've implemented google drive into my android application and it work pretty nice, but I'm trying to figure out a way to run an upload/download in a background thread so that I can leave an activity and do something else on my app. The problem is, drive needs the activity reference in case of exceptions, such as UserRecoverableAuthIOException
.
Here's the issue I cannot understand. Here's some try/catch code:
try {
//...drive api stuff here
} catch (UserRecoverableAuthIOException e) {
possibleException = e;
try {
e.getIntent();
} catch ( NullPointerException e2 ) { //this is the crazy part
// e.getIntent() should not throw a nullpointer
e2.printStackTrace();
possibleException = e2;
}
onActivityRestartWhat = RESTART_IMPORT;
// just a note i do handle this exception properly in another section of a code when there is an intent.
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
possibleException = e;
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
possibleException = e;
e.printStackTrace();
}
What I can't figure out is why UserRecoverableAuthIOException
is throwing a NullPointerException
whey I try to access getIntent
.
More Info
I do catch UserRecoverableAuthIOException
when more authentication is needed and request it via the startActivityForResult
method. Also, this exception is thrown only if I back out of the activity that has started, aka destroy the activity. Basically, I have a process that uploads/downloads drive files in a thread and if I don't leave the activity until completion it works, if I destroy the activity via the back button then I get this exception.
Stack Trace
07-10 14:45:32.903: W/System.err(1450): java.lang.NullPointerException
07-10 14:45:32.913: W/System.err(1450): at android.content.Intent.<init> (Intent.java:3529)
07-10 14:45:32.913: W/System.err(1450): at com.google.android.gms.auth.UserRecoverableAuthException.getIntent(Unknown Source)
07-10 14:45:32.913: W/System.err(1450): at com.google.api.client.googleapis.extensions.android.gms.auth.UserRecoverableAuthIOException.getIntent(UserRecoverableAuthIOException.java:62)
07-10 14:45:32.913: W/System.err(1450): at my.app.DriveHelper$2.run(DriveHelper.java:211)
My Desire
I want to run downloads/uploads (via google drive) in a background thread. Since the sdk requires startActivityForResult
and other methods that might require a reference to an Activity
or Context
that makes this difficult, but it should work once the app has been granted the sdk permissions that require those references. Hopefully this makes sense.