BrowserField and lost connection - blackberry

Question

I have an app that uses a browserfield to connect to a web-page.
All is working ok and the simulator shows the right page.
If I set the simulator Network Properties to "Out of Coverage" and click on a link in my web-page then I get an exception - in the BrowserFieldConnectionManagerImpl
How can catch this exception so I can take appropriate action?
The app is using BlackBerry SDK
The code is here:
public final class example_Screen extends MainScreen {
// Create the ErrorHandler class
public class MyBrowserFieldErrorHandler extends BrowserFieldErrorHandler {
protected MyBrowserFieldErrorHandler(BrowserField browserField){
super(browserField);
}
public void displayContentError(String url, String errorMessage) {
System.out.println("JERRY: displayContentError" + url);
System.out.println("JERRY: displayContentError" + errorMessage);
}
public void displayContentError(String url, InputConnection connection, Throwable t) {
displayContentError(url, t.getMessage());
}
public void navigationRequestError(BrowserFieldRequest request, Throwable t) {
displayContentError(request.getURL(), t.getMessage());
}
public void requestContentError(BrowserFieldRequest request, Throwable t) {
displayContentError(request.getURL(), t.getMessage());
}
public InputConnection resourceRequestError(BrowserFieldRequest request, Throwable t) {
displayContentError(request.getURL(), t.getMessage());
InputConnection connection = null;
return connection;
}
}
/**
* Creates a new example_Screen object
*/
public example_Screen() {
GIFEncodedImage ourAnimation = (GIFEncodedImage) GIFEncodedImage.getEncodedImageResource("2.gif");
AnimatedGIFField _ourAnimation = new AnimatedGIFField(ourAnimation, Field.FIELD_HCENTER + Field.FIELD_VCENTER);
this.add(_ourAnimation);
LabelField _ourLabelField = new LabelField("Updating ...", Field.FIELD_HCENTER + Field.FIELD_VCENTER);
this.add(_ourLabelField);
int anim_ht = _ourAnimation.getPreferredHeight();
int label_ht = _ourLabelField.getPreferredHeight();
EncodedImage ei = EncodedImage.getEncodedImageResource("img/menu.png");
int currentWidthFixed32 = Fixed32.toFP(ei.getWidth());
int currentHeightFixed32 = Fixed32.toFP(ei.getHeight());
int displayWidthFixed32 = Fixed32.toFP(Display.getWidth());
int displayHeightFixed32 = Fixed32.toFP((Display.getHeight() - anim_ht - label_ht));
int scaleXFixed32 = Fixed32.div(currentWidthFixed32, displayWidthFixed32);
int scaleYFixed32 = Fixed32.div(currentHeightFixed32, displayHeightFixed32);
ei = ei.scaleImage32(scaleXFixed32, scaleYFixed32);
BitmapField bmp = new BitmapField(ei.getBitmap(), Field.FIELD_HCENTER + Field.FIELD_VCENTER);
add(bmp);
BrowserFieldConfig myBrowserFieldConfig = new BrowserFieldConfig();
myBrowserFieldConfig.setProperty(BrowserFieldConfig.NAVIGATION_MODE, BrowserFieldConfig.NAVIGATION_MODE_POINTER);
BrowserField browserField = new BrowserField(myBrowserFieldConfig);
add(browserField);
browserField.requestContent("http://www.bbc.co.uk");
BrowserFieldListener listener = new BrowserFieldListener() {
public void documentAborted(BrowserField browserField, Document document) {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentAborted");
}
public void documentCreated(BrowserField browserField, ScriptEngine scriptEngine, Document document) {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentCreated");
}
public void documentError(BrowserField browserField, Document document) {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentError");
}
public void documentLoaded(BrowserField browserField, Document document) {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentLoaded");
Node node = document.getFirstChild();
String nodeText = node.getTextContent();
int index = -1;
if (nodeText != null) {
String errorText = "Error requesting content for:";
index = nodeText.indexOf(errorText);
}
Screen screen = browserField.getScreen();
try {
synchronized (Application.getEventLock()) {
if (index == -1) {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentLoaded: no error");
int count = screen.getFieldCount();
if (count > 1) {
screen.deleteRange(0, (count-1));
System.out.println("JERRY: documentLoaded: " + (count-1) + " fields deleted");
} else {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentLoaded: only 1 field so none deleted");
}
} else {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentLoaded: error");
}
}
} catch (final Exception ex) {
System.out.println("example_Screen: documentLoaded: exception caught: " + ex.toString());
}
}
public void documentUnloading(BrowserField browserField, Document document) {
System.out.println("JERRY: documentUnloading");
}
public void downloadProgress(BrowserField browserField, ContentReadEvent event) {
System.out.println("JERRY: downloadProgress");
}
};
browserField.addListener(listener);
// Attach the Error Handler to the BrowserField
BrowserFieldErrorHandler eHandler = new MyBrowserFieldErrorHandler(browserField);
browserField.getConfig().setProperty(BrowserFieldConfig.ERROR_HANDLER, eHandler);
}
}

Answer 1

BrowserField contains a method, addListener() which takes a reference to BrowserFieldListener implementation.
Extend BrowserFieldListener and process errors in methods documentError() and documentAborted() of this implementation.
Then add a reference of your class instance that extends BrowserFieldListener to your browser field via browserField.addListener(browserFieldListener);.
EDIT:
If this does not work, then use BrowserFieldErrorHandler class from RIM API. Build your own error handler and pass its instance to the browserfield configuration.
Below, there's sample code:
// Create the ErrorHandler class
public class MyBrowserFieldErrorHandler extends BrowserFieldErrorHandler {
public void displayContentError(String url, String errorMessage) {
String error = "Error: (url=" + url + "): " + t.getMessage();
Dialog.ask(Dialog.D_OK, error);
logMessage(“BrowserFieldError: “ + error );
}
public void displayContentError(String url, InputConnection connection, Throwable t) {
displayContentError(url, t.getMessage());
}
public void requestContentError(BrowserFieldRequest request, Throwable t){
displayContentError(request.getURL(), t.getMessage());
}
}
// Attach the Error Handler to the BrowserField
BrowserFieldErrorHandler eHandler = new MyBrowserFieldErrorHandler();
browserField.getConfig().setProperty(BrowserFieldConfig.ERROR_HANDLER,eHandler);
I get this sample code from DevCon2010 presentation of BrowserField capabilities. You can get it here: http://dev.tuyennguyen.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DEV49.pdf