Question

I have to retreive a string from database using their id.I done thet retreival,But it is returning as some object format not as a string.Please help me..

My retreival place:

db.open();
     for(int i=1;i<=5;i++)
     {       
     if(i==1)
         group1=db.getspintitle(1);
     if(i==2)
         group1=db.getspintitle(2);
     if(i==3)
         group1=db.getspintitle(3);
     if(i==4)
         group1=db.getspintitle(4);
     if(i==5)
         group1=db.getspintitle(5);     
     }

db.getspintitle() method:

public String getspintitle(int rowId)throws SQLException
{

    String sumtotal="";
    Cursor cursor1 = db.rawQuery(
             "SELECT spin from spinner WHERE _id='rowId'", null);  
     sumtotal=cursor1.toString();   
     cursor1.close();       
     return sumtotal;   
}

Answer 1

For your information, The below returns you the Cursor, not the simple String.

Cursor cursor1 = db.rawQuery("SELECT spin from spinner WHERE _id='rowId'", null); 

To retrieve value from the cursor, you have to iterate through the cursor.

Now, here in your case, you can do as below:

 Cursor cursor1 = db.rawQuery("SELECT spin from spinner WHERE _id='rowId'", null);  

     if (cursor != null && cursor.getCount() > 0) {
         cursor.moveToNext();
         sumtotal= cursor.getString(0);
         cursor.close();
     }