/* The date/time conversion code is going to be moved outside the asynctask later, * so for convenience we're breaking it out into its own method now. */ private String getReadableDateString(long time){ // Because the API returns a unix timestamp (measured in seconds), // it must be converted to milliseconds in order to be converted to valid date. SimpleDateFormat shortenedDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd"); return shortenedDateFormat.format(time); } /** * Prepare the weather high/lows for presentation. */ private String formatHighLows(double high, double low) { // For presentation, assume the user doesn't care about tenths of a degree. long roundedHigh = Math.round(high); long roundedLow = Math.round(low); String highLowStr = roundedHigh + "/" + roundedLow; return highLowStr; } /** * Take the String representing the complete forecast in JSON Format and * pull out the data we need to construct the Strings needed for the wireframes. * * Fortunately parsing is easy: constructor takes the JSON string and converts it * into an Object hierarchy for us. */ private String[] getWeatherDataFromJson(String forecastJsonStr, int numDays) throws JSONException { // These are the names of the JSON objects that need to be extracted. final String OWM_LIST = "list"; final String OWM_WEATHER = "weather"; final String OWM_TEMPERATURE = "temp"; final String OWM_MAX = "max"; final String OWM_MIN = "min"; final String OWM_DESCRIPTION = "main"; JSONObject forecastJson = new JSONObject(forecastJsonStr); JSONArray weatherArray = forecastJson.getJSONArray(OWM_LIST); // OWM returns daily forecasts based upon the local time of the city that is being // asked for, which means that we need to know the GMT offset to translate this data // properly. // Since this data is also sent in-order and the first day is always the // current day, we're going to take advantage of that to get a nice // normalized UTC date for all of our weather. Time dayTime = new Time(); dayTime.setToNow(); // we start at the day returned by local time. Otherwise this is a mess. int julianStartDay = Time.getJulianDay(System.currentTimeMillis(), dayTime.gmtoff); // now we work exclusively in UTC dayTime = new Time(); String[] resultStrs = new String[numDays]; for(int i = 0; i < weatherArray.length(); i++) { // For now, using the format "Day, description, hi/low" String day; String description; String highAndLow; // Get the JSON object representing the day JSONObject dayForecast = weatherArray.getJSONObject(i); // The date/time is returned as a long. We need to convert that // into something human-readable, since most people won't read "1400356800" as // "this saturday". long dateTime; // Cheating to convert this to UTC time, which is what we want anyhow dateTime = dayTime.setJulianDay(julianStartDay+i); day = getReadableDateString(dateTime); // description is in a child array called "weather", which is 1 element long. JSONObject weatherObject = dayForecast.getJSONArray(OWM_WEATHER).getJSONObject(0); description = weatherObject.getString(OWM_DESCRIPTION); // Temperatures are in a child object called "temp". Try not to name variables // "temp" when working with temperature. It confuses everybody. JSONObject temperatureObject = dayForecast.getJSONObject(OWM_TEMPERATURE); double high = temperatureObject.getDouble(OWM_MAX); double low = temperatureObject.getDouble(OWM_MIN); highAndLow = formatHighLows(high, low); resultStrs[i] = day + " - " + description + " - " + highAndLow; } for (String s : resultStrs) { Log.v(LOG_TAG, "Forecast entry: " + s); } return resultStrs; }