> "For actions, the field will not be tested if no values have been
> given (treating it as a wildcard); if no data characteristics are
> specified, however, then the filter will only match intents that
> contain no data."
>
Thanks for your reply...
If you look at the code, I did specify the action in both the Intent
and the Intent filter: ALERT_ME_ACTION
Correct me if I am mistaken but it is intuitive to expect that if the
Actions match then that should be the overriding consideration. It is
analogous to a message or a method call.
If the name of the method matches, then the case "no data" is also
valid and handled by the same method.
> I suspect that you are confusing <intent-filter> characteristics with
> IntentFilter characteristics.
>
I think one is just a convenient way of specifying in XML and the
other is a way of specifying the same thing dynamically. This is also
true of Views.
> > To get it to work with the data (an id that is simply a String), what
> > mime type should I specify in the intent filter?
>
> Data is not "an id that is simply a String". Data is a Uri. Please use
> a string extra for an arbitrary string.
>
Yes, the data is a Uri
Here is the value I was using: "content://com.iovercomer/alerts/99"
I meant that in the line
Intent inte = registerReceiver(receiver, new
IntentFilter(ALERT_ME_ACTION));
If I am now instead trying to specify
public IntentFilter (String action, String dataType)
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/IntentFilter.html#IntentFilter%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String%29
the MIME type is specified as a String. if it is to be lower case,
what would I use to pass in?
Diahn Hackborn mentioned that the data part is used to distinguish
PendingIntents.
Since I am using PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT, I want the
PendingIntent associated with
"content://com.iovercomer/alerts/99" to be different from the
PendingIntent for
"content://com.iovercomer/alerts/100"
Hence I am not simply passing it in as an extra in the Bundle.
thanks,
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