Android TextView, setText using multiple variables concated together

Question

I am pulling data from a database, returning the values in an instance of a class. In my onCreate method of my Activity, I am setting the content view and then running the following code:

val thisObject:ClassCardJ = myDBAdapter.getAddressBookEntry(cardNum)
//val textFullName:String = (thisObject.getfName().toString() + " " + thisObject.getlName().toString())

val textFirstName:String = thisObject.getfName().toString()
val textLastName:String = thisObject.getlName().toString()
firstLine.setText(textFirstName)
Toast.makeText(AddressBookEntryActivity.this, thisObject.getlName().toString(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

Which sets the firstLine text to the textFirstName value and displays a toast with the value that I am using in textLastName.

However, when I attempt to change the setText of the firstLine to textFullName (after uncommenting it), my program force closes. Am I doing something funny wrong??

As request, my logcat stack trace (I tried to include everything relevant and omit everything non-relevant):

I/ActivityManager(   67): Process com.android.email (pid 330) has died.
I/ActivityManager(   67): Starting: Intent { cmp=me.snapcard/.AddressBookActivity } from pid 393
I/ActivityManager(   67): Displayed me.snapcard/.AddressBookActivity: +589ms
I/ActivityManager(   67): Starting: Intent { cmp=me.snapcard/.AddressBookEntryActivity (has extras) } from pid 393
E/dalvikvm(  393): Could not find class 'scala.collection.mutable.StringBuilder', referenced from method me.snapcard.AddressBookEntryActivity.onCreate
W/dalvikvm(  393): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 1148   (Lscala/collection/mutable/StringBuilder;) in Lme/snapcard/AddressBookEntryActivity;
D/dalvikvm(  393): VFY: replacing opcode 0x22 at 0x0050
D/dalvikvm(  393): VFY: dead code 0x0052-0091 in   Lme/snapcard/AddressBookEntryActivity;.onCreate (Landroid/os/Bundle;)V
D/AndroidRuntime(  393): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm(  393): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40015560)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(  393): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:   scala.collection.mutable.StringBuilder
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at   me.snapcard.AddressBookEntryActivity.onCreate(AddressBookEntryActivity.scala:40)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at  android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
E/AndroidRuntime(  393):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
W/ActivityManager(   67):   Force finishing activity me.snapcard/.AddressBookEntryActivity
W/ActivityManager(   67):   Force finishing activity me.snapcard/.AddressBookActivity
W/ActivityManager(   67): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{4082ce18 me.snapcard/.AddressBookEntryActivity}
I/dalvikvm(   67): Jit: resizing JitTable from 1024 to 2048
W/ActivityManager(   67): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!

But why don't you directly use firstLine.setText(thisObject.getfName().toString() + " " + thisObject.getlName().toString())? if you did,are you still getting error or so? — Hiral Vadodaria
– Hiral Vadodaria, Commented Oct 24, 2011 at 6:56
Yes, I am still getting an error when I do that. Looking at the logcat, it appears scala.collection.mutable.StringBuilder is somehow not being found which is probably responsible for building a string like that (and like the one that i have in the FullName variable). I have no clue if this is the reason why, or not. I'm hoping someone can shed some insight into this. — MRN
– MRN, Commented Oct 24, 2011 at 7:05
I actually worked around the problem by importing java.lang.StringBuilder and using a java based string builder to construct the string. I still don't know why I can't just do it how I have it. If someone does, please let me know!!! — MRN
– MRN, Commented Oct 24, 2011 at 7:06

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:55:40Z

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Like you said, you used a StringBuilder. My suspicion is that your scala.collection.mutable object has encoding that does not allow smooth concatenation of its items. I strongly suggest you wrap the concatenated string (including just textFirstName and textLastName, if you're going to use them individually) in a Scala StringBuilder. If you would like to use the java.lang.StringBuilder, then you can convert a Scala StringBuilder by simply wrapping the Scala StringBuilder with the java.lang.Stringbuilder, which is detailed here. Hope that helped!

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:55

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