Question

I’m trying to take an entire column from a table in my DB and store all the entries into a String array Below you have my code:

    public Cursor fetchAllBarcodeEntries(){
    return db.query(BARCODE_TABLE, new String[] {KEY_BARCODE_ID, KEY_BARCODE_NUMBER, KEY_BARCODE_PRODUCT, KEY_BARCODE_PRODUCT_DESC}, null, null, null, null, null);
}

I’m calling and using the function like this:

    Cursor c = dbAdapter.fetchAllBarcodeEntries();

    for(int i = 0; i < c.getCount(); i++){
        stringArray[i] = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(dbAdapter.KEY_BARCODE_PRODUCT);
    }

This is part of the error log that I’m getting

01-26 23:15:02.434: E/AndroidRuntime(787): Caused by: android.database.CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index -1 requested, with a size of 1

Any help would this would be greatly appreciated…

Answer 1

The answer is here

ArrayList<String> columnArray1 = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> columnArray2 = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> columnArray3 = new ArrayList<String>();
if(mCursor.moveToFirst()!=null){
  do{ 
    columnArray1.add(mCursor.getString(COLUM_INDEX1));
    columnArray2.add(mCursor.getString(COLUM_INDEX2));
    columnArray3.add(mCursor.getString(COLUM_INDEX3));
  } while (mCursor.moveToNext()!=null);
}

Afterwards you can convert the ArrayList into a String array:

String[] colStrArr1 = (String[]) columnArray1.toArray(new String[columnArray1.size()]);