Putting cursor data into an array

Question

Being new in Android, I am having trouble dealing with the following:

public String[] getContacts(){
    Cursor cursor = getReadableDatabase().rawQuery("SELECT name FROM contacts", null);
    String [] names = {""};
    for(int i = 0; i < cursor.getCount(); i ++){
            names[i] = cursor.getString(i);
    }
    cursor.close();
    return names;
}

The following gives me the following error:

09-18 10:07:38.616: E/AndroidRuntime(28165): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.sqllitetrial/com.example.sqllitetrial.InsideDB}: android.database.CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index -1 requested, with a size of 5

I am trying to extract the data inside the cursor to an array. Can someone help me with the implementation.

Answer 1

names.add(cursor.getString(i));

"i" is not the cursor row index, it's the column index. A cursor is already positioned to a specific row. If you need to reposition your cursor. Use cursor.move or moveToXXXX (see documentation).

For getString/Int/Long etc. you just need to tell the cursor which column you want. If you don't know the columnIndex you can use cursor.getColumnIndex("yourColumnName").

Your loop should look like this:

public String[] getContacts(){
    Cursor cursor = getReadableDatabase().rawQuery("SELECT name FROM contacts", null);
    cursor.moveToFirst();
    ArrayList<String> names = new ArrayList<String>();
    while(!cursor.isAfterLast()) {
        names.add(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("name")));
        cursor.moveToNext();
    }
    cursor.close();
    return names.toArray(new String[names.size()]);
}

Answer 2

I hope its useful to you.

 public static ArrayList<ModelAgents> SelectAll(DbHelper dbaConnection) {
            ArrayList<ModelAgents> Agents_aList = new ArrayList<ModelAgents>();

            SQLiteDatabase sqldb = dbaConnection.openDataBase();
            Cursor cursor = sqldb.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM Agents", null);
            if (cursor != null)// If Cursordepot is null then do
                                // nothing
            {
                if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {


                    do {
                        // Set agents information in model.
                        ModelAgents Agents = new ModelAgents();
                        Agents.setID(cursor.getInt(cursor
                                .getColumnIndex(TblAgents.ID)));
                        Agents.setCode(cursor.getString(cursor
                                .getColumnIndex(TblAgents.CODE)));
                        Agents.setName(cursor.getString(cursor
                                .getColumnIndex(TblAgents.NAME)));

                        Agents_aList.add(Agents);
                    } while (cursor.moveToNext());
                }
                cursor.close();
            }

            sqldb.close();

            return Agents_aList;

        }

Answer 3

When cursor is returned from a database query it is placed at index -1 that is above the first entry of the cursor so, before using the cursor to get data you have move it to its first position. For that add cursor.MoveToFirst(); after Cursor cursor = getReadableDatabase().rawQuery("SELECT name FROM contacts", null);

Answer 4

use this:

if (cursor != null && cursor.getCount()>0){
  cursor.moveToFirst();
  do{
    for(int i = 0; i < cursor.getCount(); i ++){
      names.add(cursor.getString(i));
    }
  }while(cursor.moveToNext());
}

cursor.close();

Answer 5

Try to put the data into the ArrayList<String> as below:

   public ArrayList<String> getContacts(){
        Cursor cursor = getReadableDatabase().rawQuery("SELECT name FROM contacts", null);
        ArrayList<String> names=new ArrayList<String>();
        if (cursor != null)
        {
            if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                for(int i = 0; i < cursor.getCount(); i ++){
                      names.add(cursor.getString(i));
                   }
               }
       cursor.close();
     }
     return names;
  }