Question

I’m currently using Ormlite version 4.42 with Android. What I want to do is determine whether Ormlite has the ability to return the number of records updated. Something such as the following:

SQLiteDatabase db = dbHelper.getWritableDatabase();
count = db.update(COMPANY_TABLE_NAME, values, where, whereArgs);

Instead of using a direct SQLiteDatabase connection, I want to leverage Ormlite in my content providers. Just curious as to whether this is an option.

Answer 1

This should work as long as you are using ORMLite version 4.39 or later. I now do an additional SQL statement to get the number of changes from the previous one. From the change-log:

ANDROID: Finally fixed the number of rows changed for insert/delete/update calls using SQLite CHANGES() pragma.

You could use the UpdateBuilder code to make the changes:

UpdateBuilder<Company, Integer> updateBuilder = companyDao.updateBuilder();
updateBuilder.updateColumnValue("name", newName);
updateBuilder.where().gt("customerCount", 100);
int rowsUpdated = updateBuilder.update();

There are also online docs for UpdateBuilder.