So I  have been working on a little method that parses string from a .txt file from my dropbox.

I parse the string, split it and then use the fragments as variables (for quick id fixes, live updates, etc...).

 

Everything works fine but even though the getDropbox() method is only called during onStart I still feel that it slows down the script way to much. 

 

String dropboxLink = "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/xxx/xxx.txt";
URL url;
BufferedInputStream in;
HttpURLConnection con;
int responseCode = 0;
public String[] dropboxDataArray;

	private void getDropBox() throws IOException {
		try {
			url = new URL(dropboxLink);
		} catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}
		HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);
		try {
			con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
		} catch (IOException e4) {
			e4.printStackTrace();
		}
		con.setDoOutput(false);
		con.setReadTimeout(20000);
		con.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
		con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent",
				"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0");
		try {
			((HttpURLConnection) con).setRequestMethod("GET");
		} catch (ProtocolException e3) {
			e3.printStackTrace();
		}
		con.setConnectTimeout(5000);
		try {
			in = new BufferedInputStream(con.getInputStream());
		} catch (IOException e2) {
			e2.printStackTrace();
		}
		try {
			responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
		} catch (IOException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}
		if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
		}
		   StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
           int chars_read;
           while ((chars_read = in.read()) != -1) 
           {
               char g = (char) chars_read;
               buffer.append(g);
           }
           final String dropboxContent = buffer.toString();
           dropboxDataArray = dropboxContent.split("\\s+");
	}

Edited March 11, 201411 yr by Botrepreneur

Time how long it takes for the script to start and end the onStart(). Maybe it's just you thinking weird.

I don't know much about java but I know getting text from a website shouldn't be that complicated.

I'm pretty sure something like this works;

 

String response = "";
URL url = new URL(url);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(
conn.getOutputStream());
writer.flush();
 
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
 
response = reader.readLine();
 
writer.close();
reader.close();

 

I don't know much about java but I know getting text from a website shouldn't be that complicated.

I'm pretty sure something like this works;

String response = "";
URL url = new URL(url);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(
conn.getOutputStream());
writer.flush();
 
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
 
response = reader.readLine();
 
writer.close();
reader.close();

 

dropbox are assholes, those kind of short methods only returned characters from their site (the osbot client didn't like that at all) and not from the .txt file I specifically requested.

You should really look into threads.  I use threads for my script to contact my server while the script is starting.  The script can continue to run and not be hung up by the dropbox.

 

So the variables you set via dropbox all have to be initialized as null, or their default values.

 

Create a new thread with the dropbox method in it -> run it

 

Thread will continue to run and the dropbox method will update the variables over time.

Edited March 12, 201411 yr by dreamliner

I used to use pastebin when my MTA script was free to notify the user of an update. Maybe use that as an alternative to dropbox. As far as I can tell, you are having to pretend to be firefox which makes it complicated.

Edited March 16, 201411 yr by Diclonius

wrote this a while back to auto update local scripts.. hope it helps

	private void checkForUpdate() throws InterruptedException {
		try {
			URL url = new URL("url");
			Scanner s = new Scanner(url.openStream());
			String latestVersion = s.next();
			if (latestVersion.equals(/* version getting here*/"1.0")) {
			} else if (latestVersion.equals("Stop")) {
			} else {
				updateScript();
			}
			s.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

 

wrote this a while back to auto update local scripts.. hope it helps

	private void checkForUpdate() throws InterruptedException {
		try {
			URL url = new URL("url");
			Scanner s = new Scanner(url.openStream());
			String latestVersion = s.next();
			if (latestVersion.equals(/* version getting here*/"1.0")) {
			} else if (latestVersion.equals("Stop")) {
			} else {
				updateScript();
			}
			s.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

 

this method (like the other short answers from above) doesn't seem to work for dropbox

The method from the OP seems to work fine now tho, might just have been experiencing internet issues

Edited March 19, 201411 yr by Botrepreneur