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Do not build complete responses in memory

See original GitHub issue

Many crashes are linked to OutOfMemoryError on low-end devices due to the fact that we systematically store responses in strings, whereas we could process them as a stream. This is due to our all-regex approach, which could be replaced in many cases by a sax-like parser such as the one from tagsoup. That would not require storing whole web pages in memory.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: (Heap Size=11719KB, Allocated=6276KB, Bitmap Size=7969KB)
at ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.util.CharArrayBuffer.expand(CharArrayBuffer.java:63)
at ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.util.CharArrayBuffer.append(CharArrayBuffer.java:93)
at android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompatHoneycomb.toString(RequiredFields.java:225)
at cgeo.geocaching.network.Network.getResponseDataNoError(Network.java:371)
at cgeo.geocaching.network.Network.getResponseData(Network.java:387)
at cgeo.geocaching.network.Network.getResponseData(Network.java:380)
at cgeo.geocaching.connector.gc.Login.switchToEnglish(Login.java:221)
at cgeo.geocaching.connector.gc.Login.login(Login.java:87)
at cgeo.geocaching.cgeo$firstLogin.run(cgeo.java:825)

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Created 11 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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samueltardieucommented, Jun 20, 2012

Well, I think that we should not use regular expressions at all to parse HTML pages. We should use something like TagSoup instead: http://ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/

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kumycommented, Aug 28, 2017

Jsoup is only used in some (small) parts, and there are still many regex used 😦. we should keep the issue and probably rename it to “Use a dom parser instead of Regex”

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