sending SMS in j2me

[Ilko Ivanov]

Hey guys,
I am using the following code to send SMS in my application. It does work, but it returns FALSE when the message is really sent successfully.
What do you think is causing the problem?

public boolean sendSms(String number, String message){
        boolean result = true;
        try {
          //sets address to send message
          String addr = "sms://"+number;
          // opens connection
          MessageConnection conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open(addr);
          // prepares text message
          TextMessage msg = (TextMessage)conn.newMessage(MessageConnection.TEXT_MESSAGE);
          //set text
          msg.setPayloadText(message);
          // send message
          conn.send(msg);
          conn.close();
        } catch (SecurityException se) {
            // probably the user has not allowed to send sms
            // you may want to handle this differently
            result = false;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            result = false;
        }
        return result;
    }    

Thank you!

[Walter Gabrielsen Iii]

You set your boolean result to true, and it should return true, but look where your result can be set to false: in the catch statement of your try-catch block.

Something is throwing an exception, but what? I don't know. Your catch block has the superclass Exception in it -- it will catch everything, and set your result to false, but not tell you which thing is breaking.

You should check the Java ME API for the details on those methods you are calling. At least one of them is throwing a specific type of Exception that you could test for.