Question

How can i get quoted strings in a ContentValues object to be used in a sqlite insert? SQLite seems to be choking on the : of my value

    //inside a for loop of a NodeList
    ContentValues map = new ContentValues();
    Element elm;
    elm = (Element) nodes.item(i);
    String elmname = elm.getTagName();
    map.put("foto", getValue(elm, "foto"));
    map.put("fotonormal", getValue(elm, "foto-normal"));
    map.put("link", getValue(elm, "link"));

    myDatabase.beginTransaction();
    try {
        myDatabase.insertOrThrow(TABLE_ENDING, null, map);
        Log.i(TAG, "Added");
        myDatabase.setTransactionSuccessful();
    } catch (Exception err) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Transaction failed. Exception: " + err.getMessage());
    } finally {
        myDatabase.endTransaction();
    }

which gives me this error

Transaction failed. Exception: unrecognized token: ":": INSERT INTO tbl_ending (fotonormal, foto, link) VALUES (https://example.com/fotonormal.jpg, https://example.com/foto.jpg, https://example.com/);

i believe the SQL statement should be

INSERT INTO tbl_ending (fotonormal, foto, link) VALUES ("https://example.com/fotonormal.jpg", "https://example.com/foto.jpg",  "https://example.com/");

How can I get this output instead?

Answer 1

Phillip’s answer put me on the right path, I cast the return value of the function getValue as a string

return (String) getElementValue(n.item(0));

and now i can successfully insert.