天气预报是非常有用的服务,如果能在网站上集成天气预报,能极大地方便用户查询。
寻遍了国内所有的气象站点,没找见提供Web服务的,太小气了,只能去国外找。NOAA(www.weather.gov)提供一个Web服务,但是死活连不上服务器,估计被屏蔽了,其他提供全球天气预报的有www.weather.com和yahoo,
不过weather.com的服务太麻烦,还需要注册,相比之下,yahoo的天气服务既简单又快速,只需一个http请求,然后解析返回的XML即可获得天气预报。
以北京为例,在weather.yahoo.com查找北京的城市代码为CHXX0008,对应的URL为:
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?u=c&p=CHXX0008
然后,通过SAX解析返回的XML:
URL url = new URL("http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?u=c&p=CHXX0008");InputStream input = url.openStream();SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();factory.setNamespaceAware(false);SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();parser.parse(input, new YahooHandler());
自己定义一个YahooHandler来响应SAX事件:
/** * For more information, please visit: http://www.crackj2ee.com * Author: Liao Xuefeng */public class YahooHandler extends DefaultHandler {
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes)
throws SAXException { if("yweather:condition".equals(qName)) { String s_date = attributes.getValue(3); try { Date publish = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm a z",
Locale.US).parse(s_date); //System.out.println("Publish: " + publish.toString()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); throw new SAXException("Cannot parse date: " + s_date); } } else if("yweather:forecast".equals(qName)) { String s_date = attributes.getValue(1); Date date = null; try { date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy", Locale.US).parse(s_date); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); throw new SAXException("Cannot parse date: " + s_date); } int low = Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue(2)); int high = Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue(3)); String text = attributes.getValue(4); int code = Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue(5)); System.out.println("Weather: "+ text + ", low=" + low + ", high=" + high); } super.startElement(uri, localName, qName, attributes); }}
运行结果:
Weather: Partly Cloudy, low=7, high=16Weather: Sunny, low=7, high=20