Saving and Retrieving image filess using Parse.com in Android

Question

I've been stuck at this whole day. I've tried all other means available to accomplish this. This below approach almost did the work but it's giving a null pointer exception for the variable file.

The code below describes about saving data

            final ParseObject post = new ParseObject("Student");
            post.put("name", nameS);

            final ParseFile file = new ParseFile("photo.png", data);
            file.saveInBackground(new SaveCallback() {
                @Override
                public void done(ParseException e) {
                    post.put("studentPhoto", file);
                    Log.d("John", ""+ file);
                }
            });

            post.put("author", ParseUser.getCurrentUser());

            post.saveInBackground(new SaveCallback() {
                public void done(ParseException e) {
                    if (e == null) {
                        // Saved successfully.
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Saved", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        Intent intent = new Intent(AddStudentActivityEditText.this, AddStudentActivityTextView.class);
                        startActivity(intent);

                    } else {
                        // The save failed.
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Failed to Save", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        Log.d(getClass().getSimpleName(), "User update error: " + e);
                    }
                }
            });

Below data describes about Retrieving data

final ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("Student");
    query.whereEqualTo("author", ParseUser.getCurrentUser());
    query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseObject>() {
        @Override
        public void done(List<ParseObject> objects, ParseException e) {
            if (e == null) {

                for (ParseObject text : objects) {

                    name.setText(text.getString("name"));
                 }

                ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("Student");
                query.whereEqualTo("author", ParseUser.getCurrentUser());
                query.getFirstInBackground(new GetCallback<ParseObject>() {
                    public void done(ParseObject object, ParseException e) {
                        if (object != null) {

                            ParseFile file = (ParseFile)object.get("studentPhoto");
                            file.getDataInBackground(new GetDataCallback() {


                                public void done(byte[] data, ParseException e) {
                                    if (e == null) {

                                        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length);
                                        //use this bitmap as you want
                                        photo.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

                                    } else {
                                        // something went wrong
                                    }
                                }
                            });

                        } else {
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Exception", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT) .show();

                        }
                    }
                });

            } else {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Exception", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            }
        }
    });

Answer 1

I don't know why your approach didn't working, but I will show you my approach for getting photos from parse. First, make sure that you successfully saved your image - to do that, go to your app on parse.com panel, open Core tab, and check in your Student table if there is a column named studentPhoto, and there should be links to that photos. And my approach for getting image from parse is to use Picasso library. Simply, from parse you should get only link to photo, not whole file, and then download that photo using Picasso. To get link to file do something like that:

ParseObject object = ... // your student object
try {
  object.fetchIfNeeded();
} catch (ParseException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}

ParseFile avatar  = object.getParseFile("studentPhoto");
String avatarUrl = avatar.getUrl();

And then set that image using Picasso:

   Picasso.with(getActivity()) // instead of getActivity() you could pass there any context
                    .load(avatarUrl)
                    .into(yourImageViewWithAvatar);

There is Picasso website for more info: http://square.github.io/picasso/