Get the SQLException java.sql.SQLException: ResultSet.next was not called

Question

I'm developing a Webservice at the moment. I thought I was ready to release my first productive version but I keep getting a SQLException which doesn't make any sense to me. I'm developing against a Oracle db btw. Let me give you my code at first:

try{
    variable = DoQuery("SELECT KEY FROM TABLE WHERE KEY IN ('KEY1', 'KEY2') AND ROWNUM = 1").getString("HANDLE");
}catch(SQLException e){
    return "Wasn't able to gather key: " + e.toString() + " - " + e.getSQLState();
}

The method "DoQuery":

private ResultSet DoQuery(String sqlString){
    Statement sqlHandleStatement;
    try {
        sqlHandleStatement = getStatement();
        return sqlHandleStatement.executeQuery(sqlString);
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}

The method "getStatement":

private Statement getStatement() throws SQLException {
    DataSource dataSource = null;
    try {
        dataSource = (DataSource) JNDIUtils.getInitialContext().lookup(JNDIUtils.DEFAULT_DATASOURCE);
    } catch (NamingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    Connection connection;

    connection = dataSource.getConnection();
    Statement statement;
    statement = connection.createStatement();
    return statement;
}   

However if I execute my SOAP request I keep getting back:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <ns2:getNextRMANumberResponse xmlns:ns2="http://webservice.epm.com/">
         <return>Wasn't able to gather key: java.sql.SQLException: ResultSet.next was not called - 99999</return>
      </ns2:getNextRMANumberResponse>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Error message: "Wasn't able to gather key: java.sql.SQLException: ResultSet.next was not called - 99999" (compare to the very first code snippet given in this post)

What does this mean? I really don't get why I should execute "ResultSet.next"?!

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You must call "next" and then the "getString" function to set the resultset's cursor onto the first row.

try{
    ResultSet resuse = DoQuery("SELECT KEY FROM TABLE WHERE KEY IN ('KEY1', 'KEY2') AND ROWNUM = 1");
    resuse.next();
    variable = resuse.getString("KEY");
}catch(SQLException e){
    return "Wasn't able to gather key: " + e.toString() + " - " + e.getSQLState();
}

The API documentation states:

Initially the cursor is positioned before the first row.