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<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
// These two need to be declared outside the try/catch // so that they can be closed in the finally block. HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null; BufferedReader reader = null; // Will contain the raw JSON response as a string. String forecastJsonStr = null; try { // Construct the URL for the OpenWeatherMap query // Possible parameters are avaiable at OWM's forecast API page, at // http://openweathermap.org/API#forecast Uri.Builder builder = new Uri.Builder(); builder.scheme("http") .authority("api.openweathermap.org") .appendPath("data") .appendPath("2.5") .appendPath("forecast") .appendPath("daily") .appendQueryParameter("q", potoalCode + "") .appendQueryParameter("mode", "json") .appendQueryParameter("units", "metric") .appendQueryParameter("cnt", "7") .appendQueryParameter("appid", APPID); String myUrl = builder.build().toString(); URL url = new URL(myUrl); // Create the request to OpenWeatherMap, and open the connection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET"); urlConnection.connect(); // Read the input stream into a String InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream(); StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); if (inputStream == null) { // Nothing to do. return null; } reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)); String line; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { // Since it's JSON, adding a newline isn't necessary (it won't affect parsing) // But it does make debugging a *lot* easier if you print out the completed // buffer for debugging. buffer.append(line + "\n"); } if (buffer.length() == 0) { // Stream was empty. No point in parsing. return null; } forecastJsonStr = buffer.toString(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.e("PlaceholderFragment", "Error ", e); // If the code didn't successfully get the weather data, there's no point in attemping // to parse it. return null; } finally{ if (urlConnection != null) { urlConnection.disconnect(); } if (reader != null) { try { reader.close(); } catch (final IOException e) { Log.e("PlaceholderFragment", "Error closing stream", e); } } }