Question

I’m totally new to android programming. I can see that this problem has been raised many times before. However, I am still not able to see what the problem is. I’m trying to connect the data from an SQLite database to a listview. In the ListActivity my onCreate looks like the following:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_init_key);
    getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); 

    DBHandler db = new DBHandler(this);

    Cursor cursor = db.getKeyPointCursor(1, "Crataegus");
    // the desired columns to be bound
    String[] columns = new String[] { "question1","answer1" };
    // the XML defined views which the data will be bound to
    int[] to = new int[] { R.id.question, R.id.answer };

    SimpleCursorAdapter mAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.key_list_entry, cursor, columns, to, 0);

    cursor.close();
    this.setListAdapter(mAdapter);

}

It raises the following exception, which I hope somebody can help me with.

09-10 21:52:01.505: W/dalvikvm(10976): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40c8e1f8)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{jem.danskflora/jem.danskflora.InitKeyActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: attempt to re-open an already-closed object: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteQuery (mSql = SELECT * FROM Crataegus WHERE _id=?) 
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1970)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1995)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:128)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1161)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4514)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:993)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:760)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: attempt to re-open an already-closed object: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteQuery (mSql = SELECT * FROM Crataegus WHERE _id=?) 
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteClosable.acquireReference(SQLiteClosable.java:33)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteQuery.fillWindow(SQLiteQuery.java:82)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCursor.fillWindow(SQLiteCursor.java:164)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCursor.getCount(SQLiteCursor.java:156)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.widget.CursorAdapter.getCount(CursorAdapter.java:196)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.widget.ListView.setAdapter(ListView.java:467)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.ListActivity.setListAdapter(ListActivity.java:265)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at jem.danskflora.InitKeyActivity.onCreate(InitKeyActivity.java:30)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4562)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1053)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1934)
09-10 21:52:01.510: E/AndroidRuntime(10976):    ... 11 more

Answer 1

Do not close your cursor in your onCreate method. It is referenced by your adapter, but it is not already used !

Try using a LoaderManager / CursorLoader. It is the new way for handling cursors : How to transition from managedQuery to LoaderManager/CursorLoader?

Here is an example from one of my projects (I did not test this code):

public class AdditionalActivitiesListFragment extends ListActivity implements LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks<Cursor>, OnItemClickListener, OnClickListener
{
    private SimpleCursorAdapter adapter;


    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        String[] columns = new String[] { "your", "db", "columns" };
        int[] to = new int[] { R.id.your, R.id.fields, R.id.toMapWith };

        getLoaderManager().initLoader(0x02, null, this);

        adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(activity.getApplicationContext(), R.layout.row_layout, null, columns, to, SimpleCursorAdapter.FLAG_REGISTER_CONTENT_OBSERVER);
        setListAdapter(adapter);
    }

    public Loader<Cursor> onCreateLoader(int arg0, Bundle arg1)
    {
        return new SimpleCursorLoader(this) {
            @Override
            public Cursor loadInBackground() {
                Cursor c = // Your cursor

                return c;
            }
        };
    }

    public void onLoadFinished(Loader<Cursor> arg0, Cursor cursor)
    {
        adapter.swapCursor(cursor);
    }

    public void onLoaderReset(Loader<Cursor> arg0)
    {
        adapter.swapCursor(null);
    }
}

Source of the SimpleCursorLoader : https://gist.github.com/1217628 (via https://stackoverflow.com/a/7422343/615882 )