title: Android Parsing JSON: Error in http connection java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
body: <p>Hello everyone i have a problem in parsing this JSON file <a href="http://ammantimes.net/android/ammantimes.php?at_mod=news" rel="nofollow">http://ammantimes.net/android/ammantimes.php?at_mod=news</a>
  Please help me to solve the problem:</p>
  
  <p>Here's my code i use to parse it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public String getJSONTextFromUrl(String url) {
          // initialize
          InputStream is = null;
          String result = "";
  
          // http post
          try {
              HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
              HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
              HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
              HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
              is = entity.getContent();
  
          } catch (Exception e) {
              Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection " + e.toString());
          }
  
          // convert response to string
          try {
              BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                      is, "UTF-8"), 8);
              StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
              String line = null;
              while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                  sb.append(line + "\n");
              }
              is.close();
              result = URLDecoder.decode(sb.toString(), "UTF-8");
          } catch (Exception e) {
              Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
          }
  
          System.out.println("JSON: = " + result);
          System.out.println("JSON SIZE: = " + result.length());
  
          // return result.replace(result.charAt(0), ' ');
          return result;
      }
  
  public JSONObject getJSONFromScript(String jsonText) {
  
          JSONObject jObject = null;
          String result = getJSONTextFromUrl(jsonText);
  
          // try parse the string to a JSON object
          try {
              jObject = new JSONObject(result);
          } catch (JSONException e) {
              Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
              e.printStackTrace();
          }
  
          return jObject;
  
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is the logcat output and error that i get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>04-10 14:48:25.070: I/System.out(28470): JSON: = {"news":[{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"}]}
  04-10 14:48:25.070: I/System.out(28470): JSON SIZE: = 755
  
  
  04-10 14:48:25.070: I/APACHE HTTP (thCr=11) - NafHttpAuthStrategyDefault(28470): (thUse=11) NafHttpAuthStrategyDefault()
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/log_tag(28470): Error in http connection java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in scheme at index 0: {"news":[{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"},{"NewsID":"aa","StatusID":"aa","NewsSubject":"aa","NewsTitle":"aa","NewsPhoto":"aa","IsDeleted":"aa","SubmitDateTime":"aa"}]}
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/log_tag(28470): Error converting result java.lang.NullPointerException
  
  04-10 14:48:25.070: I/System.out(28470): JSON Text: = 
  04-10 14:48:25.070: I/System.out(28470): JSON Text SIZE: = 0
  
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/log_tag(28470): Error parsing data org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of 
  04-10 14:48:25.070: W/dalvikvm(28470): threadid=9: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001e578)
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/AndroidRuntime(28470): FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-11
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/AndroidRuntime(28470): java.lang.NullPointerException
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/AndroidRuntime(28470):    at com.jordaneaucation.json.JSONParser.getNewsMap(JSONParser.java:59)
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/AndroidRuntime(28470):    at com.jordaneaucation.ui.NewsTab$1.run(NewsTab.java:72)
  04-10 14:48:25.070: E/AndroidRuntime(28470):    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470): Activity com.jordaneaucation.ui.NewsTab has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@40530778 that was originally added here
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470): android.view.WindowLeaked: Activity com.jordaneaucation.ui.NewsTab has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@40530778 that was originally added here
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.view.ViewRoot.&lt;init&gt;(ViewRoot.java:273)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:174)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:117)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:424)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:241)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at com.jordaneaucation.ui.NewsTab.onCreate(NewsTab.java:44)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1050)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1615)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1667)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:935)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3691)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:912)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:670)
  04-10 14:48:31.570: E/WindowManager(28470):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the printStackTrace()</p>
  
  <pre><code>04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947): org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of 
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at org.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:446)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at org.json.JSONTokener.nextValue(JSONTokener.java:93)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at org.json.JSONObject.&lt;init&gt;(JSONObject.java:154)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at org.json.JSONObject.&lt;init&gt;(JSONObject.java:171)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at com.jordaneaucation.json.JSONParser.getJSONFromScript(JSONParser.java:131)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at com.jordaneaucation.json.JSONParser.getNewsMap(JSONParser.java:54)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at com.jordaneaucation.ui.NewsTab$1.run(NewsTab.java:72)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/System.err(28947):    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)
  04-10 15:09:58.189: W/dalvikvm(28947): threadid=9: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001e578)
  </code></pre>