Does cursor.getString() coerce an int into a string?

Question

The docs say:

The result and whether this method throws an exception when the column value is null or the column type is not a string type is implementation-defined.

Which implementation are they talking about? The version of sqlite? Will calling

cursor.getString(INT_COLUMN)

coerce the int value into a String?

Answer 1

Does cursor.getString() coerce an int into a string?

Yes, the same data from your table can be returned with getString(), getInt(), getLong(), etc as long as it makes sense. For example,

• If the column data is 42: getInt() returns 42 and getString() returns "42".
• If the column data is plant: getString() returns "plant", getInt() returns 0.