Question

I constructed the following database:

   private static final String CREATE_TABLE_TEST=
        " create table " + TABLE_TEST +
        " (test_id integer primary key autoincrement," +
        COL_GRADE +" text not null," +
        DATE+" text not null);";



private static final String CREATE_TABLE_QUESTION=
        " create table " + TABLE_ANSWER +
        " (question_id integer primary key autoincrement," +
        COL_ANSWER_1+ " text not null,"+ 
        COL_ANSWER_2+" text not null," +
        COL_ANSWER_3+" text not null," +
        COL_ANSWER_4+" text not null," +
        COL_ANSWER_5+ " text not null,"+ 
        COL_ANSWER_6+" text not null," +
        COL_RIGHT_ANSWER+" integer," +
        COL_WRONG_ANSWER+" integer, " +
        COL_TEST_ID+" INTEGER, " + 
        "FOREIGN KEY(" + COL_TEST_ID + ") REFERENCES " + TABLE_TEST+"(test_id));";

The error persists so far:

> 11-29 18:01:20.955: E/Database(853): Error inserting right_answer=6 wrong_answer=0 answer_5=fadsfas answer_6=gadsfdasasdfa

answer_3=fasdfasf test_id=1 answer_4=fasdfsa answer_1=fasdfasd
answer_2=fasdfas

11-29 18:01:20.955: E/Database(853): android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: table answer has no column

named test_id: , while compiling: INSERT INTO answer(right_answer,
wrong_answer, answer_5, answer_6, answer_3, test_id, answer_4,
answer_1, answer_2) VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?);

@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Log.d("database", CREATE_TABLE_TEST); //I never see this statement in catlog
        Log.d("database", CREATE_TABLE_QUESTION); //nor this
        db.execSQL(CREATE_TABLE_QUESTION);
        db.execSQL(CREATE_TABLE_TEST);
    }

@Override
    public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS "+TABLE_TEST);
        db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS "+TABLE_ANSWER);
        onCreate(db);
    }

I put this in oncreate..:

 dbClass=new database(this);        
    try
    {
        Log.w("inside ",  " database opened");///This gets printed
        dbLite=dbClass.getWritableDatabase();
        Log.w("after ",  " database opened");///This get printed
    }
    catch(Exception c)
    {
        Log.v("Open database exception caught", c.getMessage());
        dbLite=dbClass.getReadableDatabase();
    }

Nothing in the onCreate gets printed..

It is as if onCreate never gets called

Answer 1

Your foreign key isn’t made correctly

http://www.sqlite.org/foreignkeys.html

for more information

private static final String CREATE_TABLE_QUESTION=
" create table " + TABLE_ANSWER +
" (question_id integer primary key autoincrement," +
COL_ANSWER_1+ " text not null,"+ 
COL_ANSWER_2+" text not null," +
COL_ANSWER_3+" text not null," +
COL_ANSWER_4+" text not null," +
COL_ANSWER_5+ " text not null,"+ 
COL_ANSWER_6+" text not null," +
COL_RIGHT_ANSWER+" integer," +
COL_WRONG_ANSWER+" integer, " +
COL_TEST_ID+" INTEGER, " + 
"FOREIGN KEY(" + COL_TEST_ID + ") REFERENCES " + TABLE_TEST+"(test_id))";

should do the trick

furtermore your onCreate method only executes when the database gets created, not when upgraded
you should override onUpgrade to perform an update (or test on a new device/emulator)

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/SQLiteOpenHelper.html#onUpgrade(android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase,%20int,%20int)

if you extend sqliteOpenHelper then you need to call the super-constuctor with your newVersionId to trigger onUpgrade

public YourDatabase(Context context) {
    super(context, DatabaseName, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
}

Tip: uninstall the application from your phone/emulator completely and reinstall it (then db will be removed and it will be created definately, if not the problem is somewhere else)