What type of view is it?  There are only a handful of view classes that
actually save and restore state (TextView and a few others).  What type of
object is it returning?  (You could print the state bundle in
onSaveInstanceState().)

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Streets Of Boston
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks Romain,
>
> Did not work... still the exception...
>
> It occurs on a View with an ID set to 'container'.
> And i went into my View hierarchy to check. All looks fine.:
> There is only one view with the id set to 'container'.
> Every other view in the hierarchy has a unique name or no id at all.
>
> And still i get the exception after my process is killed, restarted
> and my view is about to be restored....
> Doing super.onRestoreInstanceState(BaseSavedState.EMPTY_STATE); gets
> rid of that exception.
>
>
> Here's my code-snippet.
> @Override
> protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Parcelable parcelable) {
>        if (parcelable instanceof ViewBundle) {
>                final ViewBundle  viewBundle = (ViewBundle)parcelable;
>                mSaveState = viewBundle.getBundle();
>
>                // Note that mRestoredBitmapOffFullSizedImage can be null!
>                // It won't be null on a configuration change, but it may be
>                // after this view's process/activity is restarted.
>                mRestoredBitmapOffFullSizedImage =
> (Bitmap)viewBundle.getTransient
> ("bitmapholder");
>                super.onRestoreInstanceState(viewBundle.getSuperState());
>        }
>        else {
>                // TODO
>                // This exception can be thrown when:
>                //     Do edit image (Effects)
>                //     Open Dialer app, make sure process
> smugdroid.process.pictures
> is killed.
>                //     Then return to SnapFX -->
>                // java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong state class --
> expecting View Sate.
>                // Fixed it by always using BaseSavedState.EMPTY_STATE
> instead of
> 'parcelable'....
>                super.onRestoreInstanceState(parcelable); // <-- Exception
> happens
> here when using 'parcelable'.
>         }
> }
>
>
> On Nov 24, 5:57 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That would be worrisome because we do not save/restore the state of
> > views without ids.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Streets Of Boston
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I'm going to check that out.
> >
> > > What if it occurs on a View without an ID?
> >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > > On Nov 24, 11:27 am, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> This would happen if you have several views of different type with the
> > >> same id inside a single view hierarchy. This could cause other
> > >> problems so I really advise you to not hack around the default
> > >> implementation of onRestoreInstanceState()  but make sure that your UI
> > >> is setup correctly.
> >
> > >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Streets Of Boston
> >
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > i've seen this too.
> > >> > I got around it by overriding the problematic View's
> > >> > onRestoreInstanceState method:
> >
> > >> > public void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedState) {
> > >> >  ...
> > >> >  ...
> > >> >  super.onRestoreInstanceState(BaseSavedState.EMPTY_STATE);
> > >> > }
> >
> > >> > I took a look at the android.view.View's implementation of this
> > >> > onRestoreInstanceState method and it only expects the
> > >> > BaseSavedState.EMPTY_STATE as valid input. It checks for if
> > >> > (savedState != BaseSavedState.EMPTY_STATE)  then throw exception ...
> >
> > >> > For me it went wrong because 'savedState' is no longer the actual
> > >> > BaseSavedState.EMPTY_STATE instance but a de-serialized copy of it
> > >> > (after the killed process has been restored/restarted) and this
> means
> > >> > that the '!=' operator returns true and an exception is thrown.
> >
> > >> > On Nov 24, 10:08 am, Mark Wyszomierski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> >> Hi,
> >
> > >> >> I'm testing how my app behaves when killed by the OS due to low
> memory
> > >> >> conditions. I always have three activities on the stack, like:
> >
> > >> >>    A  B  C  (then C launches maps or some other heavy process)
> >
> > >> >> when my app is killed, and I return to it, C starts itself up again
> > >> >> ok. When I hit the back button to go to B, I [sometimes] get an
> > >> >> exception thrown which I can't trace. Output is below. I don't know
> > >> >> where to go from here. I've only seen one other post mentioning
> this
> > >> >> exception, but it was related to a reproducable error when rotating
> > >> >> the device. This only happens sometimes. Thanks for any help:
> >
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.469: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877): Uncaught handler:
> > >> >> thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):
> > >> >> java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo
> > >> >> {com.test.android/com.test.android.ui.ActivityHello}:
> > >> >> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong state class -- expecting
> > >> >> View State
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >>
> android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
> > >> >> 2268)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >>
> android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
> > >> >> 2284)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.app.ActivityThread.access$1800(ActivityThread.java:112)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >>
> android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1692)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run
> > >> >> (ZygoteInit.java:782)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877): Caused by:
> > >> >> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong state class -- expecting
> > >> >> View State
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.View.onRestoreInstanceState(View.java:5359)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.View.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(View.java:5335)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:
> > >> >> 1093)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:
> > >> >> 1097)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:
> > >> >> 1097)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:
> > >> >> 1097)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:
> > >> >> 1097)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.view.View.restoreHierarchyState(View.java:5314)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.restoreHierarchyState
> > >> >> (PhoneWindow.java:1501)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.app.Activity.onRestoreInstanceState(Activity.java:834)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.app.Activity.performRestoreInstanceState(Activity.java:800)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >> android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnRestoreInstanceState
> > >> >> (Instrumentation.java:1172)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     at
> > >> >>
> android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
> > >> >> 2245)
> > >> >> 11-24 07:52:12.539: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5877):     ... 11 more
> >
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