I am creating an online based Android app in which there is a listview, which shows notifications from different types of users like 'student', 'teacher'. When I click a list view item, it should check the role of the user, whether the user is registered as 'teacher' or a 'student' and it should open the activity screen based on their role. I'll use intents to open different activities. How do I check the role of the user from server?
Well, I would like to provide my own answer. I actually used Shared Preferences. Its much simple and could globally use the values we put in it. Below is the code:
1. Create a separate class and name it as you wish(I prefer SessionManager here)
public class SessionManager {
// Shared Preferences
SharedPreferences sharedPrefer;
// Editor for Shared preferences
SharedPreferences.Editor editor;
// Context
Context context;
// Shared Pref mode
int PRIVATE_MODE = 0;
// Shared Pref file name
private static final String PREF_NAME = "MySession";
// SHARED PREF KEYS FOR ALL DATA
// User's UserId
public static final String KEY_USERID = "userId";
// User's categoryId
public static final String KEY_CATID = "catId";
// User's categoryType[Teacher, Student, etc.,]
public static final String KEY_CATTYPE = "categoryType";
// User's batchId[like class or level or batch]
public static final String KEY_BATCHID = "batchId";
// Constructor
public SessionManager(Context context) {
this.context = context;
sharedPrefer = context.getSharedPreferences(PREF_NAME, PRIVATE_MODE);
editor = sharedPrefer.edit();
}
/**
* Call this method on/after login to store the details in session
* */
public void createLoginSession(String userId, String catId, String catTyp, String batchId) {
// Storing userId in pref
editor.putString(KEY_USERID, userId);
// Storing catId in pref
editor.putString(KEY_CATID, catId);
// Storing catType in pref
editor.putString(KEY_CATTYPE, catTyp);
// Storing catType in pref
editor.putString(KEY_BATCHID, batchId);
// commit changes
editor.commit();
}
/**
* Call this method anywhere in the project to Get the stored session data
* */
public HashMap<String, String> getUserDetails() {
HashMap<String, String> user = new HashMap<String, String>();
user.put("userId",sharedPrefer.getString(KEY_USERID, null));
user.put("batchId",sharedPrefer.getString(KEY_BATCHID, null));
user.put("catId", sharedPrefer.getString(KEY_CATID, null));
user.put("catType", sharedPrefer.getString(KEY_CATTYPE, null));
return user;
}
}
2. Calling the above methods on some other classes inside the project:
Storing the data in session
SessionManager session = new SessionManager(getApplicationContext());
session.createLoginSession(userId, categoryId, categoryType, batchId);
Retrieving the data from session
SessionManager session = new SessionManager(getApplicationContext());
HashMap<String, String> user = session.getUserDetails();
String userId = user.get("userId").toString();
String categoryId = user.get("catId").toString();
String categoryType = user.get("catType").toString();
String batchId= user.get("batchId").toString();
I would do it like this: While the user logs into the app, his/her user_id will be stored in the local storage and when some things are to be loaded then the users id will be checked in the server, preferably in the users table specifying whether the user is a teacher or a student or ...
First define a unique ID for each element of ListView by using View.generateViewId().
Define a callback function named onClickListener() for each element and pass the ID which user has clicked to it.
Inside the callback function put a switch statement that checks the IDs. For example: case ID = 1: is student case ID = 2: is teacher
Send the Id to remote server through a POST request.
Examine the response value in the POST request for finding the role of users.
Apply the roles by assigning them into a variable and pass them into your next Activity.
like this:
public void onClickListView(View view) {
Intent intent = new Intent(this, RoleActivity.class);
Bundle b = new Bundle();
b.putInt("user_role", mRole);
intent.putExtras(b);
startActivity(intent);
}
At first, you need to return the role of the user from the server when the login is correct. You also need to store the user details (id, username, role...) in some variable like SharedPreferences and remove them when user logout. After that, all you need is to ask for the user details stored in the session (SharedPreferences) to know which options to show/hide for each user/role.
Here is a tutorial of how to use SharedPreferences as session:
Consider your app has a MainActivity which user enters their username and password and then they are logged in. So the LoginActivity is open. In this code, if the user push a button, the code checks either user is a teacher or a student using the php code and gets back the results and opens another activity.
public class LoginActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
String json_string ;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);
Intent intent = getIntent();
Bundle intentBundle = intent.getExtras();
//It gets the Username from MainActivity
final String loggedUser = intentBundle.getString("USERNAME");
TextView loginUsername = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.login_user);
loginUsername.setText(loggedUser);
Button UserAccount = (Button)findViewById(R.id.useraccount);
//If user push the UserAccount button it calls the doInBackground task
UserAccount.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
new BackgroundTask(getBaseContext()).execute(loggedUser);
}
});
}
}
public class BackgroundTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
Context context;
AlertDialog alertDialog;
public BackgroundTask(Context userContext) {
this.context = userContext;
}
String JSON_STRING;
String result;
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
if(android.os.Debug.isDebuggerConnected())
android.os.Debug.waitForDebugger();
String json_url = "Your PHP Login URL";
try {
String username = params[0];
URL url = new URL(json_url);
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
OutputStream outputStream = httpURLConnection.getOutputStream();
// Building the message to the PHP script
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, "UTF-8"));
//Making the POST URL to send to PHP code and get the result.
String post_data = URLEncoder.encode("username", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(username, "UTF-8");
// Writing the data
bufferedWriter.write(post_data);
// Closing all writing structures
bufferedWriter.flush();
bufferedWriter.close();
outputStream.close();
// Building the Reading Infrastructure
InputStream inputStream = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "iso-8859-1"));
// Reading the data
//StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
while ((JSON_STRING = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
stringBuilder.append(JSON_STRING+"\n");
}
// Closing all reading structures
bufferedReader.close();
inputStream.close();
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
result = stringBuilder.toString();
return result;
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
}
return null;
}
@Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
super.onProgressUpdate(values);
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
//This is removing the double quotation from string result so we can compare
json_string = result.replace("\"", "");
//Trim removes the unwanted spaces from the result.
if (json_string.trim().contentEquals("student")) {
// Create your intent.
Intent sellerIntent = new Intent(LoginActivity.this, StudentAccountActivity.class);
// Start the Student page activity.
startActivity(studentIntent);
} else if (json_string.trim().contentEquals("teacher")){
// Create your intent.
Intent buyerIntent = new Intent(LoginActivity.this, TeacherAccountActivity.class);
// Start the teacher page activity.
startActivity(teacherIntent);
}
}
}
login.php
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST'){
include_once 'config.php';
$connect = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, DB_HOST);
$username = $_POST["username"];
$mysql_qry = "select role from users where username = '$username'";
$result = mysqli_query($connect, $mysql_qry);
while ($data =mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$userrole = $data['role'];
if ($userrole == "teacher"){
$therole=json_encode($userrole);
} else if ($userrole == "student") {
$therole=json_encode($userrole);
}
echo $therole;
}
mysql_close();
}
config.php
define("DB_HOST", "localhost");
define("DB_USER", "Your DB Username");
define("DB_PASSWORD", "Your DB Password");
define("DB_NAME", "Your DB Name");
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31489614/how-to-open-android-activities-based-on-role-of-user