Retrieving value from objectdb database from program

Question

I am facing some problems while I am trying to fetch data through the program. I am using objectDB as my database. Also, my database is already set up and I have dropped the laptop.odb file in the db folder of my objectDB installation. Also, when I go to the explorer and fire the query:

select this.modelName == "HP Pavillion"

correct results comes up. But, when I try to do the same thing with my code as in the following

public static void main(String argv[]) {
PersistenceManager pm = Utilities.getPersistenceManager("laptop.odb"); System.out.println("-- TEST --\n");
Query query = pm.newQuery(Laptop.class,"this.modelName == \"HP Pavillion\""); Collection result = (Collection)query.execute(); System.out.println("Result is >> "+result);

Here no results are returned. My output is :
-- TEST find --

Result is >> []

My code for the class is the following.

    package com.project;

    import java.util.*;

    import javax.annotation.processing.Processor;
    import javax.jdo.*;

    import com.objectdb.Utilities;

    public class Laptop {

        String modelName; // key

public static void main(String argv[]) {
        PersistenceManager pm = Utilities.getPersistenceManager("laptop.odb");
        System.out.println("-- TEST find --\n");
        Query query = pm.newQuery(Laptop.class,"this.modelName == \"HP Pavillion\"");
        Collection result = (Collection)query.execute();
        System.out.println("Result is >> "+result);

}

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

The reason could be that "laptop.odb" refers to a non existing ObjectDB database. In that case a new database is automatically created. Because the new database it is created empty, no results are returned from the query.

Try specifying an absolute path to the existing database.