Unexpected end of the document (on android.view.MenuInflater.parseMenu)

Question

In this line, when the application starts, the code crashes (public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu (menu menu)), as indicated in logcat. Can someone please indicate why so ???

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.official, menu); official_menu = menu.findItem(R.id.ac_official); important_menu = menu.findItem(R.id.ac_important); normal_menu = menu.findItem(R.id.ac_normal); create_menu = menu.findItem(R.id.ac_create); if(dp.getDesignation().equalsIgnoreCase("student")){ create_menu.setVisible(false); } profile_menu = menu.findItem(R.id.ac_profile); return true; } 

Logcat

 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected end of document 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.view.MenuInflater.parseMenu(MenuInflater.java:197) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.view.MenuInflater.inflate(MenuInflater.java:110) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at com.notice.official.OfficialActivity.onCreateOptionsMenu(OfficialActivity.java:183) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.app.Activity.onCreatePanelMenu(Activity.java:2504) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.preparePanel(PhoneWindow.java:413) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.doInvalidatePanelMenu(PhoneWindow.java:775) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$1.run(PhoneWindow.java:198) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:749) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:562) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:531) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:735) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:730) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:737) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553) 01-20 06:59:19.684: E/AndroidRuntime(996): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 

Answer 1

I had the same problem and was in XML, a submenu was added outside of <item> already closed /> Example:

 <item android:id="@+id/menu_map" android:title="Map" /> <item android:id="@+id/menu_options" android:title="Options" /> <menu> <item android:id="@+id/menu_sync" android:title="Sync" /> </menu> 

Remember to close the <item> after the submenu. Simple, but sometimes it happens.

Answer 2

The unexpected end of a document exception when inflating a menu means that your menu (R.menu.official) does not have corresponding tags. You can check your xml from this website: http://www.xmlvalidation.com/

Example menu file:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/reset_count_menu" android:orderInCategory="101" android:showAsAction="never|collapseActionView" android:title="@string/reset_count"/> <item android:id="@+id/count_type_menu" android:orderInCategory="102" android:showAsAction="never|collapseActionView" android:title="@string/count_forward_backward"/> <item android:id="@+id/set_initial_count_menu" android:orderInCategory="103" android:showAsAction="never|collapseActionView" android:title="@string/set_initial_count"/> <item android:id="@+id/set_counter_name_menu" android:orderInCategory="103" android:showAsAction="never|collapseActionView" android:title="@string/set_counter_name"/> </menu>