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Insert into sqlite with default value

I'm working on a android program with SQLite. I'm trying to create a datebase with two tables related by a foreign key, and I want to automaticaly populate one entry of the mother table using the insert funcion. But this generate an SQLite error.
Here is the funcion to insert an entry into the mother class
private long new_event(SQLiteDatabase db)
{
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
long id = db.insert("EVENT",null,values);
return id;
}
Here is the function to insert an entry into the child class
public long new_specific_event(SQLiteDatabase db)
{
long id_event = new_event(db);
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put("id_event", id_event);
values.put("whatsoever", "whatsoever");
long id = db.insert("SPECIFIC_EVENT",null,values);
return id;
}
Here is the mother table
CREATE TABLE EVENT (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
and here is the child table
CREATE TABLE SPECIFIC_EVENT (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, id_event NUMBER,whatsoever TEXT,FOREIGN KEY(id_event) REFERENCES EVENT(id));
This result into the following error
android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "null": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: INSERT INTO EVENT(null) VALUES (NULL)
I could do it using this and the db.execSQL() funcion, but then I have no access to the id of the entry I just create.
So, how can I use the insert funcion to insert an entry with just default value?

With ContentValues you need to put at least one value. To get a default value, put a null for a value for a column:
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.putNull("_id");
long id = db.insert("EVENT",null,values);

Inserting a completely empty row is not possible, so the insert() method has the parameter nullColumnHack to allow you to specify a column that gets a NULL value in this case:
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
long id = db.insert("EVENT", "_id", values);

How is it possible to insert row into SQLite table without specifying value for the primary key

I'm working on a project and don't understand this part of this code that I found online. (I have also looked at other examples and they do the exact same thing but I don't quite understand why)
When they are inserting something into the table, they have no value for the primary key. Could someone explain to me why that is the case?
Here is 2 examples of code that I found that do what I have stated above.
Thanks.
// As you can see a contact has 3 attributes.
int _id;
String _name;
String _phone_number;
// Where they create a table. As you can see the primary key is ID
#Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db)
{
String CREATE_CONTACTS_TABLE = "CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_CONTACTS + "("
+ KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY," + KEY_NAME + " TEXT," + KEY_PH_NO + " TEXT" + ")";
db.execSQL(CREATE_CONTACTS_TABLE);
}
// Adding new contact
// This is what I don't understand. Why don't they get an ID for the contact.
// They only have values for the name and phone number when they insert it into the table.
public void addContact(Contact contact)
{
SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put(KEY_NAME, contact.getName()); // Contact Name
values.put(KEY_PH_NO, contact.getPhoneNumber()); // Contact Phone Number
// Inserting Row
db.insert(TABLE_CONTACTS, null, values);
db.close(); // Closing database connection
}
Here's another example but this is using a book.
A book has 3 attributes, an id (the primary key), an author and the book name. And once again, they don't get the value for the primary key.
public void addBook(Book book)
{
Log.d("addBook", book.toString());
// 1. get reference to writable DB
SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
// 2. create ContentValues to add key "column"/value
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put(KEY_TITLE, book.getTitle()); // get title
values.put(KEY_AUTHOR, book.getAuthor()); // get author
// 3. insert
db.insert(TABLE_BOOKS, // table
null, //nullColumnHack
values); // key/value -> keys = column names/ values = column values
// 4. close
db.close();
}

because primary key is Autoincrement as it is an alias for ROWID.
from the documentation:
In SQLite, table rows normally have a 64-bit signed integer ROWID
which is unique among all rows in the same table. (WITHOUT ROWID
tables are the exception.)
You can access the ROWID of an SQLite table using one the special
column names ROWID, ROWID, or OID. Except if you declare an ordinary
table column to use one of those special names, then the use of that
name will refer to the declared column not to the internal ROWID.
If a table contains a column of type INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, then that
column becomes an alias for the ROWID. You can then access the ROWID
using any of four different names, the original three names described
above or the name given to the INTEGER PRIMARY KEY column. All these
names are aliases for one another and work equally well in any
context.
When a new row is inserted into an SQLite table, the ROWID can either
be specified as part of the INSERT statement or it can be assigned
automatically by the database engine. To specify a ROWID manually,
just include it in the list of values to be inserted. For example:
so in the examples you have given id is being assigned by database engine. for most of the use cases this is good enough.

You can create the table like
static final String DATABASE_CREATE = "create table "+TABLE_NAME+"( ID integer primary key autoincrement,user_name text,user_phone text,user_email text); ";
Then it will increment automatically
See this link http://www.freakyjolly.com/android-sqlite-integration/
http://www.freakyjolly.com/android-sqlite-how-to-insert-rows-in-database/

Delete specific record in sqlite table based on two criteria: _id and column

I have created a sqlite table for my android app, this table has 5 columns and multiple rows, the columns being: _id, column1, column2, column3, column4.
I want to delete a specific record, for instance the record stored in column3 corresponding to _id (in a different class are the getters and setters, for this I've named the class "TableHandler")
I guess that I'm a bit confused, following is what I was planning, but for column3 I'm not sure what should be the argument, I just want to delete whatever is in that column position corresponding to _id
public void deleteValueColumn3(TableHandler value){
SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
db.delete(TABLE_NAME, KEY_ID + " = ? AND " + KEY_COLUMN3 + " = ?",
new String[] {String.valueOf(value.getID()), ?????????);
db.close();
}
The ???????? is that I'm stuck there, maybe the whole method needs to be rewritten, I would appreciate your input.
Thanks

If you want to delete the whole record, just use the _id of the record in delete method, because that is the primary key for your table and therefore is unique. If you'd rather keep the record, you con always use the SQLiteDatabase.update method, specifying null as the new value that will replace column3 value; check out that column3 declaration has no NOT NULL tag, otherwise that could easily throw exception at you.

SQLite does not allow you to delete columns for a specific row.
You can only delete ROWS of data (delete the row that has the column _ID = 1).
Here's a quick tutorial on SQL.

How about updating that column with a null value, rather than using delete()?
ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
cv.putNull(KEY_COLUMN3);
db.getWritableDatabase().update(
TABLE_NAME,
cv,
KEY_ID + "=?",
new String[]{String.valueOf(keyIdValue)});

How do I delete the last row of a SQLite table in Android. I don't have an _id column

Okay, so I have a high score table. I have two columns, Player name and score..
Every time a new score is to be added to the table I delete the last row, put the new score and new player name in the last row and then sort the table according to the score.
I can't delete the row with minimum score because there might be multiple entries with the same score and I don't want to delete all of them.

You might want to rebuild your table and include an id column with integer primary key autoincrement. You can do quite a bit with that column in place (here's an SO question you can look into for that).
Anyway I don't know how your process goes and why you need to delete the last row but here's an example of using an ID column to get the last row ( which I assume would be the latest insert and is what usually happens if you declare an ID integer primary key autoincrement column):
public int LastInsert() {
SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
final String MY_QUERY = "SELECT MAX(" + colID + ") FROM " + myTable;
Cursor cur = db.rawQuery(MY_QUERY, null);
cur.moveToFirst();
int ID = cur.getInt(0);
cur.close();
return ID;
}
From here you can probably just get the result of LastInsert and use that to direct what your delete function should delete.
Imo you're better of maybe just updating the last row instead of deleting and reinserting in it's place though. Something like this :
public int UpdateAcc(Account acc) {
SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
cv.put(colName, acc.getName());
cv.put(colScore, acc.getScore());
return db.update(myTable, cv, colID + "=?", new String[]{params});
}

I don't remember rather android with sqlite supports multiple commands per statement, but if so this might work:
DELIMITER ;;
SET #LastId = (SELECT ROWID FROM yourTable ORDER BY ROWID DESC LIMIT 1);;
DELETE FROM yourTable WHERE ROWID=#LastId;;
Otherwise you can store this in a integer variable:
SELECT ROWID FROM yourtable ORDER BY ROWID DESC LIMIT 1;
Then use that variable to run the next line
DELETE FROM yourtable WHERE ROWID=#ThatIntegerHere;

How to check duplicates name in android database?

I want to enter name and phone number from two edit text.i use two buttons to save and show it in emulator using list view.After entering name and when i click save button how to check whether i have already entered the same name. i am new to android explanation will be really helpful.
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE "+tbname+"("+Key_id+" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, "+Key_name+" TEXT,"+Key_mobile+" TEXT)");
}
public void n(String aa, String bb) {
SQLiteDatabase db=this.getWritableDatabase();
ContentValues cv=new ContentValues();
cv.put(Key_name, aa);
cv.put(Key_mobile, bb);
db.insert(tbname, Key_name, cv);
db.close();
}
public Cursor cr()
{
SQLiteDatabase db=getReadableDatabase();
String [] colms=new String[]{Key_id+" as _id",Key_name,Key_mobile};
Cursor cur=db.query(tbname, colms, null, null, null, null, null);
cur.moveToFirst();
return cur;
}

I would start with changing your table definition by adding the NOT NULL and UNIQUE constraints.
db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE "+tbname+"("+Key_id+" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, "+Key_name+" TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE,"+Key_mobile+" TEXT)");
Then you have a choice of methods to use for your insert. You can use:
insertOrThrow will return the id of your new record, or -1 on an error (and a constraint failure of not having a unique name would be an error).
insertWithOnConflict will return the id of the new record OR the primary key of the existing row if the input param 'conflictAlgorithm' = CONFLICT_IGNORE OR -1 if any error.
Personally, I would use insertWithOnConflict with the CONFLICT_IGNORE flag set. That way you can get the row id back for the duplicate record (as well as not letting the duplicate get entered).

Put UNIQUE in your table field definition an then use insertOrThrow. If you insert the same, insertOrThrow will cause an exception, you can intercept it.