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Android Android Data Persistence CRUD Operations with SQLite Retrieving Data

Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
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Posted by Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
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Does your object *need* parameters?

Evan Anger I'm applying what is taught in these videos into my own app, but when I got to this part:

        ArrayList<ListItem> list = new ArrayList<ListItem>();
        if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
            do {
                ListItem listItem = new ListItem(getIntFromColumnName(cursor, BaseColumns._ID),
                        getStringFromColumnName(cursor, EasyListSQLiteHelper.LISTS_NAME),
                        getStringFromColumnName(cursor, EasyListSQLiteHelper.LISTS_CHECKED),
                        null);
                list.add(listItem);
            }while(cursor.moveToNext());
        }

My 'ListItem' got an error as expected because it doesn't have any parameters. It only has two values: an int and string value (getters and setters for those too). So how would I go about reading my two values this way?

Also, do I need to put ListItem into the angle brackets after 'new'?

1 Answer

Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
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Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
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    private ArrayList<TaskItem> mListsList; // The list's array of tasks
    private String mListName; // The name of the list
    private int mImportant; // Whether the item is important

    public ListItem() {}

    public ArrayList<TaskItem> getListsList() {
        return mListsList;
    }

    public void setListsList(ArrayList<TaskItem> listsList) {
        mListsList = listsList;
    }

    public String getListName() {
        return mListName;
    }

    public void setListName(String listName) {
        mListName = listName;
    }

    public int getImportant() {
        return mImportant;
    }

    public void setImportant(int important) {
        mImportant = important;
    }

    @Override
    public int describeContents() {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeToParcel(Parcel parcel, int i) {
        parcel.writeString(mListName);
        parcel.writeTypedList(mListsList);
        parcel.writeInt(mImportant);
    }

    protected ListItem(Parcel in) {
        mListName = in.readString();
        mListsList = in.createTypedArrayList(TaskItem.CREATOR);
        mImportant = in.readInt();
    }

    public static final Creator<ListItem> CREATOR = new Creator<ListItem>() {
        @Override
        public ListItem createFromParcel(Parcel source) {
            return new ListItem(source);
        }

        @Override
        public ListItem[] newArray(int size) {
            return new ListItem[size];
        }
    };
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It looks like the problem is that your ListItem constructor doesn't have any parameters, but you're passing it some in your original code snippet.

It looks like you're trying to create a ListItem object for each record returned in a query. However, not all of the query results (_ID, LISTS_NAME, and LISTS_CHECKED) match the ListItem class fields (mListsList, mListName, and mImportant). LISTS_NAME is probably mListName and LISTS_CHECKED might be mImportant, but it doesn't look like you have a column in your query for mListsList.

Either way, if you're wanting to create a ListItem object from your query results, you're going to need to have a ListItem constructor like this:

public ListItem (List<TaskItem> listsList, String listName, int important) {
    mListsList = listsList;
    mListName = listName;
    mImportant = important;
}

Does that help some?

I don't know why some of the text in my answer is underlined - that's unintentional so please disregard it.

Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
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Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
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That's better, thank you!