android - Java inner class new instance not being created -

i have java class going have number of inner classes. done organization , keep things in separate file.

public class pucobjects {      public static class pucnewsitem     {          public string title;         public string summary;         public string body;         public string url;         public string imageurl;      }  } 

i trying create new instance of inner class (doing in class parses remote xml), reason doesn't seem created:

public static arraylist<pucobjects.pucnewsitem> getpucnews() throws ioexception {          string url = "http://api.puc.edu/news/list?key="+api_key+"&count=30";         inputstream = downloadurl(url);         xmlpullparserfactory pullparserfactory;          try {             pullparserfactory = xmlpullparserfactory.newinstance();             xmlpullparser parser = pullparserfactory.newpullparser();             parser.setinput(is, null);              arraylist<pucobjects.pucnewsitem> items = null;             int eventtype = parser.geteventtype();             pucobjects.pucnewsitem item = null;             log.d("debug: ", "start: "+url);             while (eventtype != xmlpullparser.end_document){                 string name = null;                 switch (eventtype){                     case xmlpullparser.start_document:                         items = new arraylist<pucobjects.pucnewsitem>();                         break;                     case xmlpullparser.start_tag:                         name = parser.getname();                         //log.d("start tag name: ", parser.getname()+"  ===  "+name);                         if (name == "item"){                             log.d("debug: ", "item");                             item = new pucobjects.pucnewsitem();                         } else if (item != null){                             log.d("debug: ", "item not null 2");                             if (name == "title"){                                 log.d("title: ", parser.nexttext());                                 item.title = parser.nexttext();                             } else if (name == "summary"){                                 item.summary = parser.nexttext();                             } else if (name == "body_text"){                                 item.body = parser.nexttext();                             }                           }                         break;                     case xmlpullparser.end_tag:                         name = parser.getname();                         if (name.equalsignorecase("item") && item != null) {                             log.d("debug: ", "add item");                             items.add(item);                         }                         break;                 }//end switch                  eventtype = parser.next();              }//end while              log.d("debug: ", "done");             return items;          } catch (xmlpullparserexception e) {             e.printstacktrace();         } catch (ioexception e) {             // todo auto-generated catch block             e.printstacktrace();         }          return null;      }//end 

i trying create object item = new pucobjects.pucnewsitem(); seems null.

is there reason why object isn't getting created?

problem string comparison. if statement not resulting true due == check.

if (name == "item"){ 

you need use equals() method instead of == when comparing objects/strings. read thread more information on eqauals() vs ==