Android Volley Helper Class for Handling Volley Errors

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Example

public class VolleyErrorHelper {
        /**
         * Returns appropriate message which is to be displayed to the user
         * against the specified error object.
         *
         * @param error
         * @param context
         * @return
         */

        public static String getMessage (Object error , Context context){
            if(error instanceof TimeoutError){
                return context.getResources().getString(R.string.timeout);
            }else if (isServerProblem(error)){
                return handleServerError(error ,context);

            }else if(isNetworkProblem(error)){
                return context.getResources().getString(R.string.nointernet);
            }
            return context.getResources().getString(R.string.generic_error);

        }

        private static String handleServerError(Object error, Context context) {

            VolleyError er = (VolleyError)error;
            NetworkResponse response = er.networkResponse;
            if(response != null){
                switch (response.statusCode){

                    case 404:
                    case 422:
                    case 401:
                        try {
                            // server might return error like this { "error": "Some error occured" }
                            // Use "Gson" to parse the result
                            HashMap<String, String> result = new Gson().fromJson(new String(response.data),
                                    new TypeToken<Map<String, String>>() {
                                    }.getType());

                            if (result != null && result.containsKey("error")) {
                                return result.get("error");
                            }

                        } catch (Exception e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                        // invalid request
                        return ((VolleyError) error).getMessage();

                    default:
                        return context.getResources().getString(R.string.timeout);
                }
            }

            return context.getResources().getString(R.string.generic_error);
        }

        private static boolean isServerProblem(Object error) {
            return (error instanceof ServerError || error instanceof AuthFailureError);
        }

        private static boolean isNetworkProblem (Object error){
            return (error instanceof NetworkError || error instanceof NoConnectionError);
        }


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