I'm pretty sure that if there is a limit, it is much bigger than what people are saying here.
I wrote a little Twitter example on Android and just doing the home_timeline query can return up to 200 tweets, each up to 140 characters, plus overhead. That's 10s of kilobytes per GET request. See if looking at this code helps: http://github.com/brione/Brion-Learns-OAuth/blob/master/src/com/example/bloa/BLOA.java On Aug 27, 12:44 pm, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > My knowledge of the HTTP protocol is poor to begin with, and my bad > memory doesn't improve it, but I vaguely recall that a single HTTP > transfer is limited to 5000-odd characters (the precise number being > somewhat variable) by the packet sizes used in the network. But > normally the software used on each end should hide this sensitivity so > that you can deal in complete data streams up to some significantly > larger limit. > > It could be that something in your config is causing this transfer > size to be exposed. It's also possible that your coding style is > opening you up to being sensitive to data stream values. In > particular, null may be being returned from readLine at the end of the > block, even though there is more data in the transmission. (I don't > know that such is possible -- just speculating.) > > Finally, it's possible that the failure is occurring on the > transmission end, perhaps due to an "EOF" character embedded in the > source data or some such. > > On Aug 26, 5:40 pm, Achanta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am trying to get a JSON response from our server and the response > > string seems is always being truncated when the string length reaches > > to around 5525 characters. > > > HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); > > HttpPost post = new HttpPost(URL); > > ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler= new BasicResponseHandler(); > > String testResponse = httpClient.execute(post, responseHandler); > > > I also tried this by using HttpEntity and reading the response stream. > > But that also truncates the string at approximately that length. > > > HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); > > HttpPost post = new HttpPost(URL); > > // HttpGet get = new HttpGet(URL); > > > HttpResponse response = null; > > HttpEntity entity = null; > > InputStream inputStream = null; > > BufferedReader reader = null; > > String result = ""; > > try { > > response = (HttpResponse)httpClient.execute(post); > > entity = response.getEntity(); > > if(entity != null){ > > inputStream = entity.getContent(); > > } > > reader = new BufferedReader(new > > InputStreamReader(inputStream), 8000); > > StringBuffer builder = new StringBuffer(""); > > String line = reader.readLine(); > > while(line != null){ > > Log.v(tag, "int max::::::::: "+Integer.MAX_VALUE); > > Log.v(tag, "LINE::::::::: "+line > > +reader.toString()); > > Log.v(tag, "reader::::::::: "+reader.toString()); > > builder.append(line+"\n"); > > line = reader.readLine(); > > } > > inputStream.close(); > > result = builder.toString(); > > } catch (ClientProtocolException e) { > > e.printStackTrace(); > > } catch (IOException e) { > > e.printStackTrace(); > > } finally{ > > if(inputStream != null){ > > try{ > > inputStream.close(); > > }catch(IOException e){ > > e.printStackTrace(); > > } > > } > > } > > > Please let me know how I can handle this problem. I used this post as > > the reference while creating > > this.http://senior.ceng.metu.edu.tr/2009/praeda/2009/01/11/a-simple-restfu... > > > I tested the link in my browser and it does return the complete JSON. > > So I am sure the issue is with my code in android. > > > Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
