package com.example.staggeredgridviewdemo;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import android.util.Log;

public class JSONfunctions {

	 public static JSONObject getJSONfromURL(String url) {
	        InputStream is = null;
	        String result = "";
	        JSONObject jArray = null;

	        // Download JSON data from URL
	        try {
	            HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
	            HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
	            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
	            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
	            is = entity.getContent();

	        } catch (Exception e) {
	            Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection " + e.toString());
	        }

	        // Convert response to string
	        try {
	            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
	                    is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
	            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
	            String line = null;
	            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
	                sb.append(line + "\n");
	            }
	            is.close();
	            result = sb.toString();
	        } catch (Exception e) {
	            Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
	        }

	        try {

	            jArray = new JSONObject(result);
	        } catch (JSONException e) {
	            Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
	        }

	        return jArray;
	    }

}