the JDBC driver is undocumented because it's unsupported. please do not use reflection to access undocumented/unsupported API.
--elliott On Dec 14, 5:29 am, kristianlm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi jotobject, > I don't understant why this wouldn't be part of the public API. if > Android is shipped with a JDBC driver, why not let people use it? It's > certainly useful for many of us! > > Kris > > On Dec 12, 10:42 pm, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 8, 10:41 pm, Joerg Pleumann <[email protected]> wrote:> > > Regarding android.jar, I never checked but I could imagine that it > > > contains only the public API classes and might even have the actual > > > bytecode erased. Nothing is ever run against it. It is just there to > > > make Javac or Eclipse happy (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong). > > > On the device, the driver should be part of /system/framework/ > > > core.jar. > > > The SQLite driver is never used by the public API. You pass the name > > as a String URI "jdbc:sqlite:" to getConnection(). That is the way > > JDBC always works. The drivers are not part of the public API so the > > documentation is NOT missing anything regarding drivers. > > > As far as I can see the only missing documentation is the URI > > "jdbc:sqlite:" as in Joerg's example - > > > String db = "jdbc:sqlite:" + getFilesDir() + "/test.db"; > > Class.forName("SQLite.JDBCDriver"); > > Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(db); > > > The Class.forName() call is only necessary if Android does not > > automatically register the driver with DriverManager (I don't know if > > it does or not). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
