Android™

AI: Diagnosing an Ask Failure

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Demonstrates how to get information about why a request to the AI provider failed. Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkAi ai = new CkAi();

    // The provider can be "openai", "google", "claude", "deepseek", "xai", or "perplexity".
    // Support for additional providers will be added in future versions of Chilkat.
    ai.put_Provider("openai");

    // In this case, we're going to cause an intentional failure by using an invalid API key.
    ai.put_ApiKey("sk-11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111k");

    // Choose a model.
    ai.put_Model("gpt-4o");

    // Add a text input.
    ai.InputAddText("Say Hello.");

    // Ask the AI for text output.
    success = ai.Ask("text");
    if (success == false) {
        // If the response status code equals 0, it means the error occurred before receiving the HTTP response.
        // For this case look at the LastErrorText.
        if (ai.get_ResponseStatusCode() == 0) {
            Log.i(TAG, ai.lastErrorText());
            }
        else {
            // If we received an error response, the status code will be >= 400.
            // (Ask would've returned true if the response status code was 200.)
            Log.i(TAG, "Response status code: " + String.valueOf(ai.get_ResponseStatusCode()));

            // The error response (JSON) is available in the LastJsonData.
            CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
            json.put_EmitCompact(false);
            ai.GetLastJsonData(json);
            Log.i(TAG, json.emit());

            // Sample output:
            // {
            //   "error": {
            //     "message": "Incorrect API key provided: sk-11111***************************************111k. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.",
            //     "type": "invalid_request_error",
            //     "param": null,
            //     "code": "invalid_api_key"
            //   }
            // }
            }

        return;
        }

    // Get the text response.
    CkStringBuilder sbResponse = new CkStringBuilder();
    ai.GetOutputTextSb(sbResponse);
    Log.i(TAG, sbResponse.getAsString());

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}