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aashish
aashish

Reputation: 61

Room Migration - Change INTEGER column type to nullable (SQLLITE)

I have a version 1 database with an int column. In version 2, I want to make my column nullable, to achieve this I have changed my column data type to Integer from int in my java entity class.

Since after some research I realized it's not possible to change just the data type of a column.

Here what I am doing in my migration method:

My original entity name is TaskEntity, I am creating a new temp table, copying the data and then dropping the original table and then renaming the temp table to original table. 

        database.execSQL(
                "BEGIN TRANSACTION;" +

                "CREATE TABLE TaskEntityNew('id' INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT," +
                        "'text' TEXT," +
                        "'caseid' INTEGER NULL," +
                        "'status' INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0," +
                        "'datetime' DATETIME," +
                        ",'updateDt' DATETIME," +
                        " FOREIGN KEY (caseid) REFERENCES CaseEntity(id));" +

                "INSERT INTO TaskEntityNew(text,caseid,status,datetime,updateDt) SELECT text,caseid,status,datetime,update FROM TaskEntity;"+

                "DROP TABLE TaskEntity;" +

                "ALTER TABLE 'TaskEntityNew' RENAME TO 'TaskEntity';" +

                "COMMIT;"
        );

But I am getting this error

 Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Migration didn't properly handle TaskEntity(EntityCollection.TaskEntity).
                                                                                 Expected:
                                                                                TableInfo{name='TaskEntity', columns={text=Column{name='text', type='TEXT', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, updateDt=Column{name='updateDt', type='INTEGER', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, datetime=Column{name='datetime', type='INTEGER', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, status=Column{name='status', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=0}, caseid=Column{name='caseid', type='INTEGER', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, id=Column{name='id', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=1}}, foreignKeys=[ForeignKey{referenceTable='CaseEntity', onDelete='CASCADE', onUpdate='NO ACTION', columnNames=[caseid], referenceColumnNames=[id]}], indices=[Index{name='index_TaskEntity_caseid', unique=false, columns=[caseid]}]}
                                                                                 Found:
                                                                                TableInfo{name='TaskEntity', columns={text=Column{name='text', type='TEXT', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, updateDt=Column{name='updateDt', type='INTEGER', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, datetime=Column{name='datetime', type='INTEGER', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, status=Column{name='status', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=0}, caseid=Column{name='caseid', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=0}, id=Column{name='id', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=1}}, foreignKeys=[ForeignKey{referenceTable='CaseEntity', onDelete='CASCADE', onUpdate='NO ACTION', columnNames=[caseid], referenceColumnNames=[id]}], indices=[Index{name='index_TaskEntity_caseid', unique=false, columns=[caseid]}]}

What I can think of a problem is that my SQL block is not executing and my old table data is trying to match with the old java entity class. Any help will be appreciated!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4446

Answers (1)

Angus H
Angus H

Reputation: 408

According to the documentation, execSQL only executes a single SQL statement:

the SQL statement to be executed. Multiple statements separated by semicolons are not supported.

so you need to rewrite your code into multiple calls like:

database.execSQL("BEGIN TRANSACTION;");

database.execSQL("CREATE TABLE TaskEntityNew('id' INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT," +
        "'text' TEXT," +
        "'caseid' INTEGER NULL," +
        "'status' INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0," +
        "'datetime' DATETIME," +
        ",'updateDt' DATETIME," +
        " FOREIGN KEY (caseid) REFERENCES CaseEntity(id));");

database.execSQL("INSERT INTO TaskEntityNew(text,caseid,status,datetime,updateDt) SELECT text,caseid,status,datetime,update FROM TaskEntity;");

database.execSQL("DROP TABLE TaskEntity;");

database.execSQL("ALTER TABLE 'TaskEntityNew' RENAME TO 'TaskEntity';");

database.execSQL("COMMIT;");

As-is, SQLite is executing "BEGIN TRANSACTION;" then ignoring the rest of your SQL statements.

Upvotes: 4

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