I have a user email me yesterday that he is having a problem with my application so i started debugging with him and had him sent me the log of the phone and he is getting a XmlPullParserError
when he makes a call to the server
E/Message Exchange::CallWebService(6426): Exception: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: unterminated entity ref (position:TEXT �������`I�...@1:18 in java.io.InputStreamReader@406c8808) 05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: unterminated entity ref (position:TEXT �������`I�...@1:18 in java.io.InputStreamReader@406c8808) 05-31-12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.exception(KXmlParser.java:273)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.error(KXmlParser.java:269)05-31-12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.pushEntity(KXmlParser.java:781)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.pushText(KXmlParser.java:849)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.nextImpl(KXmlParser.java:354)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.next(KXmlParser.java:1378)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.nextTag(KXmlParser.java:1408)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.ksoap2.SoapEnvelope.parse(SoapEnvelope.java:126)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.ksoap2.transport.Transport.parseResponse(Transport.java:100)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.ksoap2.transport.HttpTransportSE.call(HttpTransportSE.java:195)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at org.ksoap2.transport.HttpTransportSE.call(HttpTransportSE.java:95)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at ecm2.android.MessageExchange$1.run(MessageExchange.java:96)05-31 12:33:25.573
W/System.err(6426): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)05-31 12:33:27.928
this is the line it always fails at
trans.call(SOAP_ACTION, soapEnvelope);
that makes the call to the server and it just throws an error. I have the same exact phone
this person has and I had him running the exact version I am running
, I had not problems calling the server but he still had a problem.
I had him uninstall and reinstall several times so I dont know what would cause this on his phone and not mine?
this is how i create the XML
private static String CreateCallXML(String sDeviceID, String sEMailAddress, String sVersion) {
Logging logger = new Logging();
XmlSerializer serializer = Xml.newSerializer();
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
try {
serializer.setOutput(writer);
serializer.startDocument("UTF-8", true);
serializer.startTag("", "PostData");
serializer.startTag("", "RetrieveMsg");
serializer.attribute("", "ver", sVersion);
serializer.attribute("", "DevID", sDeviceID);
serializer.attribute("", "eMailAddress", sEMailAddress);
logger.append("D", className, "CreateCallXML", "LastIncMsgID:" + Settings.LastIncMsgID);
logger.append("D", className, "CreateCallXML", "LastDLMsgID: " + Settings.LastDLMsgID);
serializer.attribute("", "LastIncMsgID", "" + Settings.LastIncMsgID);
serializer.attribute("", "LastDLMsgID", "" + Settings.LastDLMsgID);
serializer.endTag("", "RetrieveMsg");
serializer.endTag("", "PostData");
serializer.endDocument();
return writer.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
return null;
}
}
Update 2:
after going through the code it appears that the users email address is the problem an example of the users email address is abcd3961@gmail.com
if I use that it throws the exception when it hits the line to make the call to the server. If I change one letter in the email address it executes the call fine.
is this a ksoap problem? and how can I get around this as i cannot tell him to change his email address?
I was having the same problem on an Android 2.2 device and found that ksoap2 2.6.5 isn't compatible with Android 2.2. Well I think that's the problem, all I know is it throws these errors. I downgraded my ksoap2 to 2.4 and it started working again.
Unterminated entity this error occurs when
1... Error in response string may be some entity are not closed.
2... You are getting some xml character in xml file
you need to replace all & with & amp; see this answer
I had the same problem. the solution was when I send the response from the XML I have to replace the "&" with & in the username, for that some users had the problem but others no.
So step 2 in "MAC" answer