Android - ClassCastException?

Question

@Override
public void onPause()
{
    super.onPause();
    save(notes.itemSelected);
}
@Override
public void onResume()
{
    super.onResume();
    notes.itemSelected.clear();
    notes.itemSelected = load();

}
@Override
public void onRestart()
{
    super.onRestart();
    notes.itemSelected.clear();
    notes.itemSelected = load();

}

private void save(final ArrayList<String> isChecked) {
SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = getPreferences(Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedPreferences.edit();
 for(Integer i = 0; i < isChecked.size(); i++)
 {
     editor.putString(i.toString(), isChecked.get(i));
 }
editor.commit();
}

private ArrayList<String> load() {
SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = getPreferences(Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    ArrayList<String> reChecked = new ArrayList<String>();
    for(Integer i = 0; i < notes.getCount(); i++)
    {
        String s= i.toString();
        Log.e(TAG, s);
        reChecked.add(i, sharedPreferences.getString(s, "empty"));
    }
    return reChecked;
}

Here is my custom adapter whose instance called notes i am using in above code.

public class IconAdapter extends BaseAdapter
{
private Activity activity;
private Object[] data;
private ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> listItems;
public static LayoutInflater inflater = null;
private PackageManager pm;
public ArrayList<Boolean> itemChecked = new ArrayList<Boolean>();
public ArrayList<String> itemSelected = new ArrayList<String>();
public ArrayList<CheckBox> ctv = new ArrayList<CheckBox>();
//TextView textView;
CheckBox cb;
//ImageView imageView;
public CompleteTaskManager ctm = new CompleteTaskManager();

public IconAdapter(Activity a, ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> items)
{
    activity = a;
    listItems = items;
    data = items.toArray();
    inflater = (LayoutInflater)activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    pm = a.getPackageManager();


    for(int i = 0; i < items.size(); i++)
    {
        itemChecked.add(i,false);
    }


    for(int i = 0; i < items.size(); i++)
    {
        itemSelected.add(i, " ");
    }
     for(int i = 0; i < items.size(); i++)
    {
        cb  = new CheckBox(a);
        ctv.add(i,cb);
    }
}

public int getCount() {
    return listItems.size();
}

public Object getItem(int position) {
    return position;
}

public long getItemId(int position) {
    return position;
}

public static class ViewHolder{
    public TextView textView;
    public ImageView imageView;
    public CheckBox checkBox;
}

public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
    View row = convertView;
    final ViewHolder holder;
    if(convertView==null)
    {
        row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item, parent, false);
        holder = new ViewHolder();
        holder.textView = (TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.text1);
        holder.checkBox = (CheckBox)row.findViewById(R.id.check);
        holder.imageView = (ImageView)row.findViewById(R.id.image);
        row.setTag(holder);
    }
    else
    {
        holder = (ViewHolder)row.getTag();

    }

    String s = data[position].toString();
    String[] tokens = s.split(",");
    String[] mToken = tokens[0].split("=");
    String taskName = mToken[1];
    holder.textView.setText(taskName);
    String[] mTokens = tokens[1].split("=");
    final String pkgName =  mTokens[1].substring(0, (mTokens[1].length() - 1));

    holder.checkBox.setTag(position);
    holder.checkBox.setChecked(itemChecked.get(position));
    /*for(int i = 0; i < itemSelected.length; i++)
    {
        if(itemSelected[i].equals(pkgName))
        {
            holder.checkBox.setChecked(true);
        }
    }*/
    ctv.set(position,holder.checkBox);
    holder.checkBox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener()
    {
        public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton button, boolean b) {
            Integer posClicked = (Integer)button.getTag();
            if(b)
            {
                itemChecked.set(posClicked, b);
                itemSelected.set(posClicked, pkgName);
            }
            else
            {
                itemChecked.set(posClicked, b);
                itemSelected.set(posClicked, " ");
            }
        }
    });

   holder.checkBox.setChecked(itemChecked.get(position));

    try{
        Drawable icon =   pm.getApplicationIcon(pkgName);
        holder.imageView.setImageDrawable(icon);
    }
    catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException ne)
    {

    }
     row.setId(position);
     return row;
}

public boolean isChecked(int position)
{
    return itemChecked.get(position);
}
public String getPkgName(int position)
{
    return itemSelected.get(position);
}
public void removeItem(int position)
{
    listItems.remove(position);
}

}

Could anybody tell me why i am getting a ClassCastException at reChecked.add(i, sharedPreferences.getString(s, "empty"));. I mean it's strange that its telling me that i am casting boolean into string but how???? i did not even used boolean anywhere in this code.

Note. - notes.itemSelected is an ArrayList of string type.

Please help.

Answer 1

Actually i figure it out why i was getting ClassCastException. first of all it wasn't MAC OSX which we were thinking was the reason for this exception. And i just found out why this exception was occurring.

Let me explain what happened. Before storing the ArrayList of String type i saved one ArrayList of type Boolean using same for() loop so it means that key with the name of i.toString() was already taken and i was calling my save() method in onPause() which was never called because i was not able to run my app on device or emulator because of this exception so the saved keys were never overwritten. And when i figured it out i just changed the key name to j+"0" (just a random one) and bang it's stopped throwing the exception.

P.S. Exception was there because the key was already used.

I hope it will help others who are facing or might face the same situation in future.

@Roflcoptr and @Durga I really appreciate your help guys thanks a lot.

Thanks.

Answer 2

A ClassCastException will occur when you are not type casting the data types properly. I have corrected your save method:

private void save(final ArrayList<String> isChecked) {
    SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = getPreferences(Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedPreferences.edit();
    for(Integer i = 0; i < isChecked.size(); i++)
    {
        editor.putString(i+"", isChecked.get(i));
    }
    editor.commit();
}

Similarly you should also change the code in your load method...