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Intent missing only some extras in IntentService

I've been breaking my head with this for a few days so I hope someone can point out what I'm doing wrong. I'm creating an intent with 5 string extras and setting it to a PendingIntent to use with AlarmManager. However when the alarm triggers and I proceed with handling the intent inside onHandleIntent of my service class, there are only 3 extras in the Intent. Some code & screenshots below.

Intent creation:

    Intent notificationIntent = new Intent("android.media.action.DISPLAY_NOTIFICATION");
        ;
        notificationIntent.addCategory("android.intent.category.DEFAULT");
        notificationIntent.putExtra("key1", "val5");
        notificationIntent.putExtra("key2", "val4");
        notificationIntent.putExtra("key3", "val3");
        notificationIntent.putExtra("key4", "val4");
        notificationIntent.putExtra("key5", "val5");
        return notificationIntent;

Pending Intent creation:

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getActivity(), Integer.parseInt(obj.uniqueId), notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

Inside intent service:

protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {

        if(intent != null) {

            if (intent.getExtras() != null) {

             String val1 = intent.getStringExtra("key1");
             String val2 = intent.getStringExtra("key2");
             String val3 = intent.getStringExtra("key3");
             String val4 = intent.getStringExtra("key4");
             String val5 = intent.getStringExtra("key5");

             // proceed with other stuff..

      }
   }
}

Based on some other answer's to questions similar to mine, I've also tried:

final Intent originalIntent = (Intent)intent.getExtras().get( Intent.EXTRA_INTENT );
final String val1 = originalIntent.getStringExtra("key1");

But the originalIntent is always null. I can't figure out why only 3 of the extras are available and the other 2 aren't. They are all String values so the discrimination is beyond my understanding :(

Debugger screenshots: When intent is created - enter image description here

When intent is read in intent service class - enter image description here

I also tried doing intent.setAction("",Math.random()); as suggested in some answers on SO but that resulted in the alarm not triggering at all. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • You've added your "extras" to a broadcast Intent and then you claim that in your Service only 3 of the 5 show up. How about looking at the code that extracts the "extras" from the broadcast Intent in onReceive() and copies them to the Intent you use to call startService(). I think you'll find your problem is right there :-)