Need an example of HttpResponseCache in Android

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Hi I am trying to use the HttpResponseCache introduced in Android 4.The docs do talk clearly about how to install the cache but I am at a complete loss on how to cache Images downloaded from the net.Earlier I was using the DiskLruCache to cache them. Would anyone point me towards some examples of working code where HttpResponseCache has been used..

Edit:- Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here:-

MainActivity.java
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    final long httpCacheSize = 10 * 1024 * 1024; // 10 MiB
    final File httpCacheDir = new File(getCacheDir(), "http");
    try {
        Class.forName("android.net.http.HttpResponseCache")
            .getMethod("install", File.class, long.class)
            .invoke(null, httpCacheDir, httpCacheSize);
        Log.v(TAG,"cache set up");
    } catch (Exception httpResponseCacheNotAvailable) {
        Log.v(TAG, "android.net.http.HttpResponseCache not available, probably because we're running on a pre-ICS version of Android. Using com.integralblue.httpresponsecache.HttpHttpResponseCache.");
        try{
            com.integralblue.httpresponsecache.HttpResponseCache.install(httpCacheDir, httpCacheSize);
        }catch(Exception e){
            Log.v(TAG, "Failed to set up com.integralblue.httpresponsecache.HttpResponseCache");
        }
    }
    TheMainListFrag gf=(TheMainListFrag) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("thelistfrags");
    if(gf==null){
        gf=TheMainListFrag.newInstance();
        FragmentTransaction ft=getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
        ft.replace(R.id.thelefty, gf,"thelistfrags");
        ft.commit();
    }
}

Then in the loader of TheMainListFrag, I do the below:-

public ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> loadInBackground() {
    String datafromServer = null;
    ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> al = new ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>>();
    try {
        String url = "someurl";
        HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();

        urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
        InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line);
        }
        datafromServer=sb.toString();
        Log.v("fromthread",datafromServer);
        // etc 
                    //etc

    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.v("fromthread", e.getClass() + "--" + e.getMessage());
    }

    return al;
}

When i am connected to internet, it works fine, and in the directory http-the cache directory named above, i can see the files too. But when I am not connected to the internet, the data refuses to load.

When i load images from the net, i see the cache files named as .tmp , which i believe are termed as dirty as per DiskLruCache.

Please let me know if there is any other info that you want me to provide

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