RSS Reader Does Not Get Full Description

Question

I do not get a full description of the getDescription () method, where am I mistaken.?

RSSReader.java

public class RSSReader extends Activity implements OnItemClickListener { public final String RSSFEEDOFCHOICE = "someurloffeedburner?format=xml"; public final String tag = "RSSReader"; private RSSFeed feed = null; /** Called when the activity is first created. */ public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { super.onCreate(icicle); setContentView(R.layout.main); // go get our feed! feed = getFeed(RSSFEEDOFCHOICE); // display UI UpdateDisplay(); } private RSSFeed getFeed(String urlToRssFeed) { try { // setup the url URL url = new URL(urlToRssFeed); // create the factory SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); // create a parser SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); // create the reader (scanner) XMLReader xmlreader = parser.getXMLReader(); // instantiate our handler RSSHandler theRssHandler = new RSSHandler(); // assign our handler xmlreader.setContentHandler(theRssHandler); // get our data via the url class InputSource is = new InputSource(url.openStream()); // perform the synchronous parse xmlreader.parse(is); // get the results - should be a fully populated RSSFeed instance, or null on error return theRssHandler.getFeed(); } catch (Exception ee) { // if we have a problem, simply return null return null; } } public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); menu.add(0,0,0, "Choose RSS Feed"); menu.add(0, 1, 1, "Refresh"); Log.i(tag,"onCreateOptionsMenu"); return true; } public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item){ switch (item.getItemId()) { case 0: Log.i(tag,"Set RSS Feed"); return true; case 1: Log.i(tag,"Refreshing RSS Feed"); return true; } return false; } private void UpdateDisplay() { TextView feedtitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.feedtitle); TextView feedpubdate = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.feedpubdate); ListView itemlist = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.itemlist); if (feed == null) { feedtitle.setText("No RSS Feed Available"); return; } feedtitle.setText(feed.getTitle()); feedpubdate.setText(feed.getPubDate()); ArrayAdapter<RSSItem> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<RSSItem>(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,feed.getAllItems()); itemlist.setAdapter(adapter); itemlist.setOnItemClickListener(this); itemlist.setSelection(0); } public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position, long id) { Log.i(tag,"item clicked! [" + feed.getItem(position).getTitle() + "]"); Intent itemintent = new Intent(this,ShowDescription.class); Bundle b = new Bundle(); b.putString("title", feed.getItem(position).getTitle()); b.putString("description", feed.getItem(position).getDescription()); b.putString("link", feed.getItem(position).getLink()); b.putString("pubdate", feed.getItem(position).getPubDate()); itemintent.putExtra("android.intent.extra.INTENT", b); startActivityForResult(itemintent,0); } } 

Showdescription.xml File

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:autoLink="all" android:text="story goes here ...." android:id="@+id/storybox" /> <Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Back" android:id="@+id/back" /> </LinearLayout> 

I get the first two or three lines of description by this code from feedburners URL. So my code for these two files will help me understand what changes I should make to get a full description.

Answer 1

Does your XML have full text in the description? Some XML only provides a summary and you need to include the full article from the blog administration properties panel. And even this change does not work automatically for feedburner, check also the feedburner admin panel.