Cupboard for SQL-Lite to set unique field on one column - android

I am using Cupboard for android project. the project was very simple but later I need to set some fields as unique column in my class.
eg:
class book {
Long _id;
String name; // this name should be unique
String auther;
}
I am not able to figure out how to do that.

Issue has been resolved recently by Cupboard:
https://bitbucket.org/littlerobots/cupboard/issues/8/flexible-way-to-control-how-entities-are

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#PrimaryKey
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To
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private int id;
Since Sqlite does not support altering columns, my only guess is to migrate the whole table as is and resetting the constraints.
Do I even have to migrate the database during the development process or can I just rebuild it, since my database will change rapidly, so I don't have to migrate every time?
I suggest you to change your approach: add an unique identifier (UID) as alternative way to identify records.
You can define a UID with annotation Entity on your POJO.
#Entity(indices={#Index(value="uid", unique=true)})
publi class Pojo {
..
public String uid;
..
}
When you insert a record in your database, you can define uid field using:
String uuid = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
You can use the UUID field to identify your records, in absolute way. When you migrate to a version to another, you don't work with the old ids, you can always work with UID.

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Is there any way to set a field auto increment with android Room?
There is a table which contains 3 fields: id, name, order. And I want the field order to be an auto increment field.
#PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
private long id;
private String name;
private int order;
Set field as primary key can achieve this, but there is already one id.
I can handle the order by myself, maybe set the field order as unique is much safer. But I prefer letting the db do it automatically. How can I do that?
Currently, Android doesn't support auto increment. Even for primary key, its not auto-increment, its auto-generate. It won't be serial numbers. It will generate a random hash numbers.
Auto generate is supported only for primary key but not for any normal column
#PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
Annotate your Entity class with the code above.

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i have added in the ToDoItem table of the local DB of the mobile device the columns "createdAt" and "updatedAt", because they also exist in the Azure Database ToDoItem table. Those columns are never updated in the localstorage table although i refresh the list (the other table columns are updated normally).
Why could this happen?
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Thank you
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[Microsoft.WindowsAzure.MobileServices.CreatedAt]
public DateTimeOffset? CreatedAt { get; set; }
[Microsoft.WindowsAzure.MobileServices.UpdatedAt]
public DateTimeOffset? UpdatedAt { get; set; }
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I need to copy data from one table to another. Doing so, I'd like to set manually some static values that will override data from source table. Here is example:
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SELECT id_usr, name, description, '2014-03-19 15:15:09', 'public'
FROM users_temp
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I'd like to know if it is possible, because on Android phone(SQLite from external native library) it doesn't copy any records, but on Windows it works fine.
I've found the problem. My users_temp table was actually a virtual table created from file. While creating that virtual table I have defined wrong charset. It caused that, at the end of every value there was added some kind of white character and condition:
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I have a pre-populated database, I hadd .csv and make a database in sqllite manager and imported all values into this database.
Now I put this database into android's assets folder and want to use this via ORMLite in my android application.
Please, need your help and will be thankful to you.
Now I put this database into android's assets folder and want to use this via ORMLite in my android application.
Boy there is a lot of ground to cover here to use ORMLite with this.
The short answer is that you will need to create Java objects which correspond to your database tables. Each Java object should have fields that match the table columns with the appropriate types with #DatabaseField annotations.
For example, if you CSV file was:
# name, id, street
Bill Jones,123,131 Main St.
and your table created is something like:
create table user (name VARCHAR(255), integer id, street VARCHAR(255));
The Java object you will need is something like:
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#DatabaseField(id = true)
int id;
#DatabaseField
String name;
#DatabaseField
String street;
}
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Any additional questions I'd ask to the ORMLite Users Mailing List.

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