Android Question String comparison

[davemorris]

Hi, Guys
I have a problem with string comparison, the line
IF fcmToken = webFcmToken then always fails (see code below).

I have viewed tokens with in debug an they appear identical. Also tried .trim and even .toupper but still failed the comparison.

Also tried fcmToken.compare(webFcmToken) and got the result 67!

I think it is something to do with encoding - fcmToken is taken from my code after it calling firebasemessaging.SubscribeToTopic("general") and the other (webFcmToken) is from web based database.

Example code below - I have marked the problem statement with <<<< ALWAYS FAILS

' Query update FCM token - Returns true if FCM tokens are the same or the FCM token updated successfully.
private Sub QueryUpdateFcm(customerId As Int, fcmToken As String)As ResumableSub
    Dim fcmUpdatedOk As Boolean = False
    Dim jobGet As HttpJob: jobGet.Initialize("UseWebApi", Me)
    jobGet.Download(modEposWeb.URL_CUSTOMER_API & "/" & customerId & "?" & modEposWeb.API_QUERY & "=" & modEposWeb.API_GET_FCMTOKEN)
    wait for (jobGet) jobDone(jobGet As HttpJob)
    If jobGet.Success And jobGet.Response.StatusCode = 200 Then
        Dim webFcmToken As String = jobGet.GetString
        If fcmToken = webFcmToken Then ' <<<< ALWAYS FAILS
            fcmUpdatedOk = True
        Else
            Dim jobPut As HttpJob: jobPut.Initialize("UseWebApi", Me)
            jobPut.PutString(modEposWeb.URL_CUSTOMER_API & "/" & customerId & "?" & modEposWeb.API_SETTING & "=" & _
            modEposWeb.API_GET_FCMTOKEN & "&" & modEposWeb.API_SETTING_1 & "=" & fcmToken, "")
            Wait For (jobPut) jobDone (jobPut As HttpJob)
            If jobPut.Success And jobPut.Response.StatusCode = 200 Then
                fcmUpdatedOk = True
            End If
            jobPut.Release
        End If
    End If
    jobGet.Release
    Return fcmUpdatedOk   
End Sub

Any ideas?

Kind regads
Dave

 

[DonManfred]

fcmToken is taken from my code after it calling firebasemessaging.SubscribeToTopic("general") and the other (webFcmToken) is from web based database

Do some tests
convert them to hexcode and log the two hexstrings.
You may get an idea what is different.

Probably the string coming from your webservice is not in UTF8.

 

[davemorris]

Hi
I did insert a line "jobGet.GetRequest.SetHeader("Accept-Encoding","utf8")" but that did not work.

' Query update FCM token - Returns true if FCM tokens are the same or the FCM token updated successfully.
private Sub QueryUpdateFcm(customerId As Int, fcmToken As String)As ResumableSub
    Dim fcmUpdatedOk As Boolean = False
    Dim jobGet As HttpJob: jobGet.Initialize("UseWebApi", Me)
    jobGet.Download(modEposWeb.URL_CUSTOMER_API & "/" & customerId & "?" & modEposWeb.API_QUERY & "=" & modEposWeb.API_GET_FCMTOKEN)
    jobGet.GetRequest.SetHeader("Accept-Encoding","utf8") ' <<<< INSERTED TO ENCODE TO UTF-8 (don't work either)
    wait for (jobGet) jobDone(jobGet As HttpJob) 
    If jobGet.Success And jobGet.Response.StatusCode = 200 Then
        Dim webFcmToken As String = jobGet.GetString
        If fcmToken = webFcmToken Then ' <<<< ALWAYS FAILS
            fcmUpdatedOk = True
        Else
            Dim jobPut As HttpJob: jobPut.Initialize("UseWebApi", Me)
            jobPut.PutString(modEposWeb.URL_CUSTOMER_API & "/" & customerId & "?" & modEposWeb.API_SETTING & "=" & _
            modEposWeb.API_GET_FCMTOKEN & "&" & modEposWeb.API_SETTING_1 & "=" & fcmToken, "")
            Wait For (jobPut) jobDone (jobPut As HttpJob)
            If jobPut.Success And jobPut.Response.StatusCode = 200 Then
                fcmUpdatedOk = True
            End If
            jobPut.Release
        End If
    End If
    jobGet.Release
    Return fcmUpdatedOk   
End Sub

Have you provide code snippet for converting a string to hexcode?

Kind regards
Dave

 

[DonManfred]

The forumsearch IS working. I´m sure it would reveal the library used (Byteconverter)...

Do not expect everytime someone do the search for you

    Log($"Str1 = ${str1}, hex = ${bc.HexFromBytes(str1.GetBytes("UTF8")}"$)
    Log($"Str2 = ${str2}, hex = ${bc.HexFromBytes(str2.GetBytes("UTF8")}"$)

 

[davemorris]

Hi

Firstly, in my defense, can I just say I did attempt to use the forum search - looking for "convert string to hexcode" and get hits (but none very useful) and "Byteconverter" is a long way from my search parameters - you must appreciate with search engines it helps if you know exactly what you are looking for and when libraries are involved, I find it can be very misleading.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up - the hex dump did show the problem. It appeared jobGet.GetString returns the string between quotes. When using the debug to display the string, it shown without quotes. A simple log report did show the quotes - So Beware of the debug when display strings!

i.e. fcmToken shown in debug as adkdfd..... and log(fcmToken) shown as "adkdfd...."

I have checked the http message from the Server and no quotes are included in the response. I think if I start asking about the GetString() operation or the issue with debug and log reports that needs to be for another thread (obviously after I have done some searching).

Kind regards
Dave