Unable to retrieve stock quotes from yahoo

**the reporter** · 06-02-2010, 07:30 PM

Hi all, im able to populate my file from textfile to the comboboxes however it's just not retriving data. What's wrong with my symbols? Can anyone help me troubleshoot this code? I want to retrive the stock quotes from the various company on my combobox. If i change the portion Stock.add(StockInfo[1] it can get the yahoo fiance data. however when i put it to Stock.add(StockInfo[1] and want to retrieve it using the name it cant be done. anyone can help?

Java Code:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;

import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;


public class fyp6 {
	JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Symbol: ");
	JLabel label2 = new JLabel("Symbol: ");
	JLabel label3 = new JLabel("Last price: ");
	JLabel label4 = new JLabel("Change: ");
	JLabel label5 = new JLabel("volume: ");
	JLabel read1 = new JLabel("");
	JLabel read2 = new JLabel("");
	JLabel read3 = new JLabel("");
	JLabel read4 = new JLabel("");
	ArrayList<Object> Stock;
	Object[] arr;
	
	public fyp6() {
		 Stock  = new ArrayList<Object>();
		  String line = null;
		try
        {
                FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(
                		("C:/Java Sem 2/FYP SEM 1/stock.txt"));
                InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis);
                BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(isr);
                while ((line = input.readLine()) != null){
	            	String[] StockInfo = line.split(",");  
	            	Stock.add(StockInfo[0]);
	            	
                
              
                
                
                }   	
        }
        
        catch(FileNotFoundException FNF)
        {
                System.err.println("File not found: " + FNF);
        }
        catch(IOException E)
        {
          System.err.println("IOException: " + E);  
        }
        
        
        arr = Stock.toArray();
        final JComboBox ipList = new JComboBox(arr);
       
        
        JFrame frame1 = new JFrame("stock");
		frame1.setBounds(50, 50, 400, 200);

		frame1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		
		JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
		JPanel panel2 = new JPanel();
		panel1.setLayout(new GridLayout(1,2));
		
		 
		 
	
		panel1.add(label1);
		panel1.add(ipList);
		panel2.setLayout(new GridLayout(4,2));
		panel2.add(label2);
		panel2.add(read1);
		panel2.add(label3);
		panel2.add(read2);
		panel2.add(label4);
		panel2.add(read3);
		panel2.add(label5);
		panel2.add(read4);
		
		frame1.add(panel1, BorderLayout.NORTH);
		frame1.add(panel2, BorderLayout.CENTER);
		
		ipList.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

				try {
			     	Object input1 =ipList.getSelectedItem(); 
					URL yahoo = new URL("http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s="+input1+"&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv");
					BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(yahoo.openStream()));
					Scanner src = new Scanner(in).useDelimiter(",");;
						
					read1.setText(src.next());
					read2.setText(src.next());
					read3.setText(src.next());
					read3.setText(src.next());
					read3.setText(src.next());
					read4.setText(src.next());
					read4.setText(src.next());
					read4.setText(src.next());
					read4.setText(src.next());

					in.close();
							           
				} catch (IOException ex) {
					ex.printStackTrace();
				
				}
			}
		});
		
		
		frame1.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame1.setVisible(true);
	    }
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new fyp6();
	}
}