SQLiteOpenHelper

SQLiteOpenHelper

SQLiteOpenHelper (Context context, 
                String name, 
                SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory factory, 
                int version)

Create a helper object to create, open, and/or manage a database. This method always returns very quickly. The database is not actually created or opened until one of getWritableDatabase() or getReadableDatabase() is called.

SQLiteOpenHelper

SQLiteOpenHelper (Context context, 
                String name, 
                SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory factory, 
                int version, 
                DatabaseErrorHandler errorHandler)

Create a helper object to create, open, and/or manage a database. The database is not actually created or opened until one of getWritableDatabase() or getReadableDatabase() is called.

Accepts input param: a concrete instance of DatabaseErrorHandler to be used to handle corruption when sqlite reports database corruption.

close

void close ()

Close any open database object.

getDatabaseName

String getDatabaseName ()

Return the name of the SQLite database being opened, as given to the constructor.

getReadableDatabase

SQLiteDatabase getReadableDatabase ()

Create and/or open a database. This will be the same object returned by getWritableDatabase() unless some problem, such as a full disk, requires the database to be opened read-only. In that case, a read-only database object will be returned. If the problem is fixed, a future call to getWritableDatabase() may succeed, in which case the read-only database object will be closed and the read/write object will be returned in the future.

Like getWritableDatabase(), this method may take a long time to return, so you should not call it from the application main thread, including from ContentProvider.onCreate().

getWritableDatabase

SQLiteDatabase getWritableDatabase ()

Create and/or open a database that will be used for reading and writing. The first time this is called, the database will be opened and onCreate(SQLiteDatabase), onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase, int, int) and/or onOpen(SQLiteDatabase) will be called.

Once opened successfully, the database is cached, so you can call this method every time you need to write to the database. (Make sure to call close() when you no longer need the database.) Errors such as bad permissions or a full disk may cause this method to fail, but future attempts may succeed if the problem is fixed.

Database upgrade may take a long time, you should not call this method from the application main thread, including from ContentProvider.onCreate().

onConfigure

void onConfigure (SQLiteDatabase db)

Called when the database connection is being configured, to enable features such as write-ahead logging or foreign key support.

This method is called before onCreate(SQLiteDatabase), onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase, int, int), onDowngrade(SQLiteDatabase, int, int), or onOpen(SQLiteDatabase) are called. It should not modify the database except to configure the database connection as required.

This method should only call methods that configure the parameters of the database connection, such as enableWriteAheadLogging() setForeignKeyConstraintsEnabled(boolean), setLocale(Locale), setMaximumSize(long), or executing PRAGMA statements.

onCreate

void onCreate (SQLiteDatabase db)

Called when the database is created for the first time. This is where the creation of tables and the initial population of the tables should happen.

onDowngrade

void onDowngrade (SQLiteDatabase db, 
                int oldVersion, 
                int newVersion)

Called when the database needs to be downgraded. This is strictly similar to onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase, int, int) method, but is called whenever current version is newer than requested one. However, this method is not abstract, so it is not mandatory for a customer to implement it. If not overridden, default implementation will reject downgrade and throws SQLiteException

This method executes within a transaction. If an exception is thrown, all changes will automatically be rolled back.

onOpen

void onOpen (SQLiteDatabase db)

Called when the database has been opened. The implementation should check isReadOnly() before updating the database.

This method is called after the database connection has been configured and after the database schema has been created, upgraded or downgraded as necessary. If the database connection must be configured in some way before the schema is created, upgraded, or downgraded, do it in onConfigure(SQLiteDatabase) instead.

onUpgrade

void onUpgrade (SQLiteDatabase db, 
                int oldVersion, 
                int newVersion)

Called when the database needs to be upgraded. The implementation should use this method to drop tables, add tables, or do anything else it needs to upgrade to the new schema version.

The SQLite ALTER TABLE documentation can be found here. If you add new columns you can use ALTER TABLE to insert them into a live table. If you rename or remove columns you can use ALTER TABLE to rename the old table, then create the new table and then populate the new table with the contents of the old table.

This method executes within a transaction. If an exception is thrown, all changes will automatically be rolled back.

setWriteAheadLoggingEnabled

void setWriteAheadLoggingEnabled (boolean enabled)

Enables or disables the use of write-ahead logging for the database. Write-ahead logging cannot be used with read-only databases so the value of this flag is ignored if the database is opened read-only.