I build an application and I’m trying to retrieve user info from Firebase. After the registration form, I have a new activity where the users need to write their personal info and that information is stored in firebase. Then, in my navigation drawer, I have an activity, called “AccountActivity”, where the user cand see their personal info saved into the database. I tried to write some code in order to do this, but when I try to access the AccountActivity, it is empty..doesn’t retrieve user info from firebase and I get this error:
SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero-length
Do you know what is wrong and what can I do in order to fix it?
This is the data I have in firebase, in JSON format, so the database is not empty:
"User" : {
"cgIW3VyfDONZjgA0r8LfGNr1zEO2" : {
"age" : "30",
"gender" : "Male",
"height" : "170",
"username" : "Alex",
"weight" : "80"
},
"gLMP5YpLheQBWGxfyT5xcfOI9ii1" : {
"age" : "28",
"height" : "155",
"username" : "Ana",
"weight" : "60"
}
}
}
User class:
public class User {
public String username;
public String age;
public String weight;
public String height;
public String gender;
public User(){
}
public User(String username, String age, String weight, String height, String gender){
this.username = username;
this.age = age;
this.weight = weight;
this.height = height;
this.gender = gender;
}
public String getUsername() {
return username;
}
public String getAge() {
return age;
}
public String getWeight() {
return weight;
}
public String getHeight() {
return height;
}
public String getGender() {
return gender;
}
public void setUsername(String username) {
this.username = username;
}
public void setAge(String age) {
this.age = age;
}
public void setWeight(String weight) {
this.weight = weight;
}
public void setHeight(String height) {
this.height = height;
}
public void setGender(String gender) {
this.gender = gender;
}
}
AccountActivity:
public class AccountActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
ListView myListView;
ArrayAdapter<String> arrayAdapter;
DatabaseReference databaseReference;
FirebaseUser user;
List<String> itemList;
String userId;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_account);
myListView = findViewById(R.id.listView);
user = FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser();
userId = user.getUid();
itemList = new ArrayList<>();
databaseReference = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();
userRef = databaseReference.child("User");
ValueEventListener valueEventListener = new ValueEventListener() {
@Override
public void onDataChange(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
for (DataSnapshot ds : dataSnapshot.getChildren()) {
User user = ds.getValue(User.class);
itemList.add(user.getUsername());
itemList.add(user.getAge());
itemList.add(user.getWeight());
itemList.add(user.getHeight());
itemList.add(user.getGender());
}
arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(AccountActivity.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, itemList);
myListView.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);
}
@Override
public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError databaseError) {
}
};
userRef.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(valueEventListener);
activity_account.xml:
android:id="@+id/textView"
android:layout_width="263dp"
android:layout_height="46dp"
android:text="@string/account_informations"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="30sp"
android:textStyle="bold|italic"
app:fontFamily="@font/alex_brush"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tvUsernameDb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="178dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="178dp"
android:layout_marginTop="73dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="175dp"
android:layout_marginRight="175dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="539dp"
android:text="@string/textviewUsernameDb"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/constraintLayout" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tvAgeDb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="180dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="180dp"
android:layout_marginTop="51dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="173dp"
android:layout_marginRight="173dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="468dp"
android:text="@string/textviewAgeDb"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tvUsernameDb" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tvWeightDb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="180dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="180dp"
android:layout_marginTop="47dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="173dp"
android:layout_marginRight="173dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="402dp"
android:text="@string/textviewWeightDb"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tvAgeDb" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tvHeightDb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="181dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="181dp"
android:layout_marginTop="57dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="171dp"
android:layout_marginRight="171dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="325dp"
android:text="@string/textviewHeightDb"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tvWeightDb" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tvGenderDb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="182dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="182dp"
android:layout_marginTop="54dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="171dp"
android:layout_marginRight="171dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="252dp"
android:text="@string/textviewGenderDb"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tvHeightDb" />
In XML file, I put some text views, but with no text, just black space, and in string.xml I have something like this for each TextView form activity_account.xml:
<string name="textviewGenderDb">" "</string>
So my questions are: I didn’t something wrong in the XML file, or the code is written is wrong? I don’t know where is the problem and why I get this error. Thanks for your help!
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Answer
I did something wrong in the XML file, or the code is written wrong?
There are three main problems.
The fields in your
Userclass are public. If you want to use getters and setters, make all of themprivate.Your
databaseReferencepoints to the root of your database but users are added within theUsernode. So in order to get all users, a call to.child("User")should be added. So please check the following lines of code:DatabaseReference rootRef = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference(); DatabaseReference userRef = rootRef.child("User"); ValueEventListener valueEventListener = new ValueEventListener() { @Override public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) { for(DataSnapshot ds : dataSnapshot.getChildren()) { User user = ds.getValue(User.class); Log.d("TAG", user.getUsername()); } } @Override public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError databaseError) { Log.d("TAG", databaseError.getMessage()); //Don't ignore errors! } }; userRef.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(valueEventListener);
The result in the logcat will be:
Alex Ana
Two thinks you should note. First, you can directly map a node from the database to a User object, without the need to create a new object and set the values. Second, the node should be more likely to be named Users or users and not simply User, because in that node exist multiple users and not a single one.
- Because you are iterating on a node that contains multiple users, you should use instead of TextView object a ListView. In this way you can add each details in a row.