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Java Hibernate Basics Data Persistence & ORMs Using Java to Connect to a Database

There was a database error: table contacts has 5 columns but 4 values were supplied

For some reason, my code doesn't print the expected results unless I manually enter the id values in the INSERT statements.

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class JdbcMain {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
    // TODO: Load the SQLite JDBC driver (JDBC class implements java.sql.Driver)
    Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC");

    // TODO: Create a DB connection
    try(Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlite:contactmanager.db")) {

      // TODO: Create a SQL statement
      Statement statement = connection.createStatement();

      // TODO: Create a DB table
      statement.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS contacts");
      statement.executeUpdate("CREATE TABLE contacts (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, firstname STRING, lastname STRING, email STRING, phone INT(10))");             

      // TODO: Insert a couple contacts
      statement.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO contacts VALUES ('A', 'Apples', 'apples@email.com', 1234567890)");
      statement.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO contacts VALUES ('B', 'Bananas', 'bananas@email.com', 1234567890)");
      statement.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO contacts VALUES ('C', 'Cherries', 'cherries@email.com', 1234567890)");

      // TODO: Fetch all the records from the contacts table
      ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM contacts");

      // TODO: Iterate over the ResultSet & display contact info
      while (resultSet.next()) {
        int id = resultSet.getInt("id");
        String firstname = resultSet.getString("firstname");
        String lastname = resultSet.getString("lastname");
        System.out.printf("%s %s - %d%n", firstname, lastname, id);        
      }

    } catch (SQLException ex) {
      // Display connection or query errors
      System.err.printf("There was a database error: %s%n",ex.getMessage());
    }
  }
}

I am running with this command:

clear && javac JdbcMain.java && java -cp sqlite-jdbc-3.8.6.jar:. JdbcMain                                 

I tried using AUTOINCREMENT thinking that would automatically increment the primary key id, but that didn't work. I have to manually type the id values (1, 2, 3...) for it to work and Chris didn't have to do that in the video. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Regards, Ahmed