CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException Index 0 requested, with a size of 0

Question

I'm trying to get a text from a certain row of my database. For this, I made this function

public String getTranslation(long rowId) throws SQLException {    
    String str = null;
    Cursor mCursor = db.query(
        true, TABLE_LANGUAGE_FR, new String[] {
            KEY_ID_INTERFACE_TEXT, KEY_ITEM_NAME,KEY_FORM_LABEL_ID, KEY_FORM_RANK
        }, 
        KEY_FORM_LABEL_ID + "=" + rowId, null, null, null, null, null
    );

    if (mCursor != null) {
        mCursor.moveToFirst();
        str = mCursor.getString(mCursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_ITEM_NAME));
    }
    return str;
}

and I call it like this :

db = new DbAdapter(this);
db.createDatabase(); 
db.openDataBase();
String str = db.getTranslation(1706);

My table looks like this :

I get this error :

09:32:08.965    307 com.Orange  ERROR   AndroidRuntime  Caused by: android.database.CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 0 requested, with a size of 0
09:32:08.965    307 com.Orange  ERROR   AndroidRuntime      at android.database.AbstractCursor.checkPosition(AbstractCursor.java:580)
09:32:08.965    307 com.Orange  ERROR   AndroidRuntime      at android.database.AbstractWindowedCursor.checkPosition(AbstractWindowedCursor.java:214)
09:32:08.965    307 com.Orange  ERROR   AndroidRuntime      at android.database.AbstractWindowedCursor.getString(AbstractWindowedCursor.java:41)
09:32:08.965    307 com.Orange  ERROR   AndroidRuntime      at com.Orange.Database.DbAdapter.getTranslation(DbAdapter.java:141)
09:32:08.965    307 com.Orange  ERROR   AndroidRuntime      at com.Orange.Authentication.onCreate(Authentication.java:32)

Why am I getting this error? What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It would seem like you have an emtpy cursor. Instead of checking whether it is null try checkcing

if(mCursor.getCount() > 0)
{
  //do stuff
}

try removing your where condition to make sure you actually get data when running the select statement. If you still get nothing you might have a typo in your tablenames, or failed to connect/create the database/tables.

Cursor mCursor = db.query("sys_interface_text", new String[] {
       "id_interface_text", "item_name","form_label_id", "form_rank"}, 
               "form_label_id = 1706", null, null, null,
       null);

Answer 2

Try using

while(cursor.moveToNext())
{
   if(cursor.isFirst())
   {
      //Your code goes here in your case
      return mCursor.getString(mCursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_ITEM_NAME));
   }
}
finaly
{
 if(mCursor!= null)
 {
   mCursor.close();
 }
}