not sure if I use an intentservice, asynctask... or what? - java

I have one activity in which I need to do a GET command to receive json data and have that inserted into my POJO. The GSON library does this for me. However, I need to do another GET command and have that json data inserted into a different POJO. In addition to that, I need to also do a POST command to send data to the server as well as update data on the server.
If I use a asynctask, I would need to create at least 2 different ones because I am handling to different POJOS. And then I would have to write some logic in there to do a POST instead of a GET... can you recommend to me some architecture which would best suit to do all of these things ? I dont want to have to create 4-5 different asynctasks classes., I think there might be a better approach than this.
I dont know how one asynctask can do the job, because I have 2 different return parameters for my asncytask: List, List . As mentioned above, I have 2 different GETS.

You can get all the data in a single AsyncTask, making 3 requests one after another thus creating 3 objects and returning all of them, say, as a list, from doInBackground().

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How to pass a serializableExtra from different android applications?

I'm trying to send a SerializableExtra from an application to another one.
I use
resultIntent.putExtra("thing", fc);
and in the receive application :
Thing theThing = (Thing) data.getSerializableExtra("thing");
But since the applications doesn't have the same names I got the following error:
Java.lang.RuntimeException: Parcelable encountered ClassNotFoundException reading a Serializable object (name = com.test.senderapp.Thing)
And I can't modify the sender application , I need to find a way to make it works only controlling the application that receive the intent.
Thank you
Use Content Providers to achieve this.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.
We were discussing this issue into something pretty similar; we wanted that a keyboard could share data with another app and use it with a combination of other features.
The goal is that you define which data to expose and other apps can use that similar to what the Contact's app does; which you can access a CursorLoader to fetch all of the user's contacts.
On the other hand, as a second solution, you can make your second app receive a String and send the object as a JSON; but I'd rather prefer the first one if you're going to keep adding more objects or summing up other applications.

Android Intents and Lists

I plan on reading several files when my app/game is created and using the information from them for the entirety of the app. I also have to write to the file at one point.
I have two files. One is a 2-column text file that I'll turn into a dictionary for fast searching. The other is a text file that has 11 columns. I'll make a dictionary out of two of the columns, and the other data I need kept as is so I can write to the columns to count the amount of times something happens in different circumstances for datamining.
Currently, I've turned the second file into a list of a list of strings, or List>. I can't figure out how to pass that around in intents. ".putStringArrayListExtra" only works for a list of strings.
Am I going about this the wrong way entirely? This is my first real Android app.
In order to store a data structure into an Intent, it has to be either serializable or parcelable. If your data structure is neither of them, you might create a class that would implement Serializable and manage it. A good example might be found here.
Once done, you then might use Intent.putSerializable(...) to store your data structure. See this:
Using putSerializable in Android
Additionally to this, if you could convert your structure into a JSON structure, you'd already have it done since it would be treated as a String. If not, the above solution should be easy to do.

Optimizing RMI Service Response

I am writing a server client application, best performance is a must; I am using RMI for server-client communication, the server uses mySQL database.
Now in the client side I have a method called
getLinks()
which invokes the same method on the server, the problem is that this method returns about 700Mb of data, which takes some time to get, and some more time to analyse.
And then I'm setting some values for each Link:
for (Link l : myService.getLinks()) l.setSelected(false);
What I have in mind right now is just getting the Link Ids first (since this would be a smaller data) and then using Asynchronous method to get each Link by Id (each link need one service call); and then setting the Link values.
Is this the best approach, is there another way of getting RMI data one by one (one method call and more than one return)?
Is there something like (yield return) in C#?
you can also make a pagination method, which receive the initial id (or position if the id's are not a consecutive) and the length, in this way you will not send all the id's twice
Are the Link objects remote objects? If not I don't really see the point of the code, as it only sets something locally in the client object which is immediately thrown away.
Assuming they are remote objects, it would be better to ship the entire update to the server and tell it to update the whole collection, something like setLinksSelected(boolean), where the server does the iteration.
But I would also be wary of updating, or even transporting, 700Mb of data via RMI whichever way you do it. That's a lot of data.

Programmatically sending mule message (formerly: Accessing mule http endpoint from java)

Scroll towards the end for the solution to the topic's problem. The original question was asking for a somewhat different thing.
As a part of a larger process, I need to fetch and link two related sets of data together. The way that the data is retrieved(dynamics crm, n:n relationships..) forces us retrieve the second set of the data again so that it will have all the necessary information. During a part of larger transformation of this data, I would like to access the http endpoint that is used to fetch the data from the crm, retrieve the second set of data and process it. I can get the endpoint through DefaultEndPointFactory like so:
DefaultEndpointFactory def = new DefaultEndpointFactory();
def.getInboundEndpoint("uri").getConnector;
But there is no method to actually send the mulemessage.
Solved:
The problem is that you can not set inbound properties on the MuleMessage, and the flow is depending on some of those to function(path, query params etc).
It seems you are able to inbound scoped properties with this:
m.setProperty("test", (Object)"test", PropertyScope.INBOUND);
Is there a way to make this approach work, or an alternative way to access the flow? I tried using mulecontext to get the flow:
muleContext.getRegistry().lookupFlowConstruct("myflow");
But it did not contain anything that looked useful.
Solution:
As David Dossot suggested in a comment of his answer, I was able to solve this with muleClients request method.
muleContext.getClient().request(url, timeout);
Then constructing the url as usual with GET parameters etc.
I'm not 100% sure about what you're trying to achieve but anyway, the correct way of using Mule transports from Java code is to use the MuleClient, which you can access with muleContext.getClient().
For example, the send method allow you to pass a properties map that are automatically added to the inbound scope. Behind the scene, Mule takes care of creating the endpoint needed for the operation.
Regarding the flow: what are you trying to do with it? Invoke it?

Search optimization when data owner is someone else

In my project, we have 2 REST calls which take too much time, so we are planning to optimize that. Here is how it works currently - we make 1st call to system A and then pass the response to system B for further processing. Once we get the response from system B, we have to manipulate it further before passing it to UI layer and this entire process takes lot of time. We planned on using Solr/Lucene but since we are not the data owners, we can't implement that. Can someone please shed some light on how best this can be handled? We are using Spring MVC and Spring webflow. Thanks in advance!!
[EDIT:] This is not the actual scenario and I am writing this as an example for better understanding. Think of this as making a store locator call for a particular zip to get a list of 100 stores and then sending those 100 stores to another call to get a list of inventory etc. So, this list of stores would change for every zip code and also the inventory there.
If your queries parameters to System A / System B are frequently the same you can add a cache framework to your code. If you use Spring3, you can use the cache easily with an #Cacheable annotation on your code calling SystemA. See :
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.0.M1/spring-framework-reference/html/cache.html
The cache subsystem will cache the result including processing code.

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