I have a database in SQLite precreated and inserted in assets folder, unfortunately I cannot access the database.
When I try to use a command to access the DB, for example
DataBaseHelper myDbHelper = new DataBaseHelper(this);
myDbHelper = new DataBaseHelper(this);
try {
myDbHelper.openDataBase();
}catch(SQLException sqle){
throw sqle;
}
I get this error:
E/AndroidRuntime(5390): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.mysoftware.app/com.mysoftware.app.Home}: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: unable to open database file
My DataBaseHelper class is:
public class DataBaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper{
private static String DB_PATH = "/data/data/com.mysoftware.app/databases/";
private static String DB_NAME = "DBTestate";
private SQLiteDatabase myDataBase;
private final Context myContext;
public DataBaseHelper(Context context) {
super(context, DB_NAME, null, 1);
this.myContext = context;
}
public void createDataBase() throws IOException{
boolean dbExist = checkDataBase();
SQLiteDatabase db_Read = null;
if(dbExist){
//do nothing - database already exist
}else{
//By calling this method and empty database will be created into the default system path
//of your application so we are gonna be able to overwrite that database with our database.
this.getReadableDatabase();
db_Read = this.getReadableDatabase();
db_Read.close();
try {
copyDataBase();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new Error("Error copying database");
}
}
}
private boolean checkDataBase(){
SQLiteDatabase checkDB = null;
try{
String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
checkDB = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);
}catch(SQLiteException e){
//database does't exist yet.
}
if(checkDB != null){
checkDB.close();
}
return checkDB != null ? true : false;
}
private void copyDataBase() throws IOException{
//Open your local db as the input stream
InputStream myInput = myContext.getAssets().open(DB_NAME);
// Path to the just created empty db
String outFileName = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
//Open the empty db as the output stream
OutputStream myOutput = new FileOutputStream(outFileName);
//transfer bytes from the inputfile to the outputfile
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int length;
while ((length = myInput.read(buffer))>0){
myOutput.write(buffer, 0, length);
}
//Close the streams
myOutput.flush();
myOutput.close();
myInput.close();
}
public void openDataBase() throws SQLException{
//Open the database
String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
myDataBase = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);
}
@Override
public synchronized void close() {
if(myDataBase != null)
myDataBase.close();
super.close();
}
@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
}
@Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
}
....
}
My database structure :
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