Question

I am working with a listview where the primary key is text, not an integer. It’s actually a unique url

It works so far, I even managed to alias the url column to _id in the rawQuery() and the listview accepts it happily.

But now I have run into a problem!

onListItemClick() returns the id as a long so when I click on an item I just get 0 no matter what.

Is it possible to obtain the clicked id somehow else?

Answer 1

It should be possible to add an field _id to your db. Other wise this may work for you:

protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
    Cursor c = (Cursor) getListAdapter().getItem(position);
    String url = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("_id"));
}

This solution won’t work if you use filtering on the Adapter like in this question. onListItemClick will report the position after the filtering.