/**
* This method takes a single Article Object and converts it in to a single JSON object including
* some additional HTML formating so they can be displayed nicely
*
* @param article
* @param current
* @throws JSONException
*/
private static void buildJsonObject(Article article, JSONObject current) throws JSONException {
String title = article.getTitle();
String description =
article.getDescription().replaceAll("\\s+", " ").replaceAll("\\<[^>]*>", "");
String date = article.getPubDate();
if (date != null && date.length() > 0) {
DateFormat[] rssFormatters = {
new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz", Locale.UK),
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ", Locale.UK)
};
DateFormat bulFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm", Locale.US);
for (DateFormat rssFormatter : rssFormatters) {
try {
Date realDate = rssFormatter.parse(date);
String bulDate = bulFormatter.format(realDate);
date = bulDate;
break;
} catch (ParseException e) {
// Can't parse, stick to the original.
Log.e("DATE PARSER", e.getMessage());
}
}
}
int tagPos = description.indexOf("<");
if (tagPos > 0) {
description = description.substring(0, tagPos) + '.';
}
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append(BOLD_OPEN).append(title).append(BOLD_CLOSE);
sb.append(PARAGRAPH);
sb.append(description);
sb.append(PARAGRAPH);
sb.append(SMALL_OPEN).append(ITALIC_OPEN).append(date).append(ITALIC_CLOSE).append(SMALL_CLOSE);
current.put("text", Html.fromHtml(sb.toString()));
current.put("title", BOLD_OPEN + title + BOLD_CLOSE);
String urlString = null;
if (article.getUrl() == null) {
urlString = "";
} else {
urlString = article.getUrl().toString();
}
current.put("url", urlString);
}
/**
* This method defines a feed URL and then calles our SAX Handler to read the article list from
* the stream
*
* @return List<JSONObject> - suitable for the List View activity
*/
public static List<JSONObject> getLatestRssFeed(CommonStringsHelper res) {
String feed = res.getString(R.string.rss_url);
RSSHandler rh = new RSSHandler();
List<Article> articles = rh.getLatestArticles(feed);
if (articles == null || articles.size() <= 0) {
Article article = new Article();
article.setArticleId(-9999);
article.setTitle(res.getString(R.string.rss_unavailable_title));
article.setDescription(res.getString(R.string.rss_unavailable_description));
article.setPubDate(res.getString(R.string.rss_unavailable_date));
article.setUrl(null);
articles.add(article);
} else {
Article article = new Article();
article.setArticleId(-9999);
article.setTitle(res.getString(R.string.author_title));
article.setDescription(res.getString(R.string.author_description));
article.setPubDate(res.getString(R.string.author_date));
try {
article.setUrl(new URL(res.getString(R.string.author_url)));
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// Oops... fallback to default.
article.setUrl(null);
}
articles.add(article);
}
Log.e("RSS ERROR", "Number of articles " + articles.size());
return fillData(articles);
}