StringBuilder! that was what I was looking for.

Thanks Eric, I'll take this over to the gears-users group.

E

FWIW, this is still really slow, but it does work!

On May 7, 2:42 pm, Eric Ayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your best bet for android specific stuff would be to ask on the
> android-users group.  Here are some general observations inline:
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Evan Ruff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ok so something really fishy is going on with the Gears API.
>
> > I created my own "prepareSQLStatement" that converts the SQL Call and
> > parameter list into a string.
>
> >        private String prepareSQLStatement( String sqlStatement, String[]
> > params ) throws DatabaseException
> >        {
> >                try
> >                {
> >                        String statement = new String( sqlStatement );
>
> performance: There's no need to make a copy of the string here.  Strings are
> immutable.
>
>
>
> >                        for ( int i = 0; ( statement.indexOf( "?" ) > 0 );
> > i++ )
>
> You probably want a while loop here:  while(statement.indexOf("?") > 0)  {
> ... }
>
>
>
> >                        {
> >                                int index = statement.indexOf( '?' );
> >                                String firstPart = statement.substring( 0,
> > index );
> >                                String secondPart = statement.substring(
> > index + 1 );
>
> >                                StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
>
> performance: Try using StringBuilder instead of 
> StringBuffer.http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/StringBuilder.html
>
>
>
> >                                sb.append( firstPart ).append( "\""
> > ).append( params[ i ] ).append
> > ( "\"" ).append( secondPart );
> >                                statement = sb.toString();
>
> performance: I don't know how big your SQL statement is or how many
> parameters you have, but you are scanning it over and over from the
> beginning of the string.  You really only need to analyze it from the end if
> the previous indexOf() line.
>
>
>
> >                        }
>
> >                        return statement;
> >                }
> >                catch ( IndexOutOfBoundsException indexOut )
> >                {
> >                        throw new DatabaseException( "Index out of bounds.
> > SQL Parameter
> > Error" );
> >                }
> >        }
>
> > When I use this method to prepare the statement before hitting
> > db.execute, all of my sql statements work as expected.
>
> > Could Android implement it's string manipulation stack slightly
> > differently than all the other platforms? I've got a sneaky suspecion
> > that the RegExp that's used to parse the '?' in the SQL commands might
> > be failing?
>
> > Furthermore, can anyone give me an ideas as how to improve the
> > performance of the above method? It creates a noticable delay. Did I
> > read somewhere that GWT has a slow string manipulation engine?
>
> > E
>
> > On May 6, 2:07 pm, Evan Ruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hey Eric,
>
> > > I'm pretty much terrified of Javascript.
>
> > > I'm a little hesitant to make any determination whatsoever as to the
> > > cause of the problem. When I run the GWT Gears Sample DatabaseDemo
> > > project, it works as expected. I can even replace all of the DB
> > > specifics with the internals of my tables/queries and it seems to
> > > work! It's just so freakin' frustrating.
>
> > > RememberTheMilk and the mobile GMail seem to make use of Gears on
> > > Android without issue, so I really don't know where to go from here.
> > > Any other suggestions?
>
> > > Here's the replaced DatabaseDemo code, fwiw:
>
> > > public class Gears implements EntryPoint
> > > {
> > >         private static final int NUM_SAVED_ROWS = 3;
> > >         private static final int NUM_DATA_TABLE_COLUMNS = 3;
>
> > >         private final Button addButton = new Button( "Add" );
> > >         private final Button clearButton = new Button( "Clear Database"
> > );
> > >         private Database db;
> > >         private final TextBox input = new TextBox();
> > >         private final FlexTable dataTable = new FlexTable();
>
> > >         public void onModuleLoad()
> > >         {
> > >                 VerticalPanel outerPanel = new VerticalPanel();
> > >                 outerPanel.setSpacing( 10 );
> > >                 outerPanel.getElement().getStyle().setPropertyPx(
> > "margin", 15 );
>
> > >                 HorizontalPanel textAndButtonsPanel = new
> > HorizontalPanel();
> > >                 textAndButtonsPanel.add( new Label( "Enter a Phrase: " )
> > );
> > >                 textAndButtonsPanel.add( input );
> > >                 textAndButtonsPanel.add( addButton );
> > >                 textAndButtonsPanel.add( clearButton );
> > >                 outerPanel.add( textAndButtonsPanel );
> > >                 outerPanel.add( new Label( "Last 3 Entries:" ) );
> > >                 outerPanel.add( dataTable );
>
> > >                 for ( int i = 0; i <= NUM_SAVED_ROWS; ++i )
> > >                 {
> > >                         dataTable.insertRow( i );
> > >                         for ( int j = 0; j < NUM_DATA_TABLE_COLUMNS; j++
> > )
> > >                         {
> > >                                 dataTable.addCell( i );
> > >                         }
> > >                 }
> > >                 dataTable.setWidget( 0, 0, new HTML( "<b>Id</b>" ) );
> > >                 dataTable.setWidget( 0, 1, new HTML( "<b>Phrase</b>" ) );
> > >                 dataTable.setWidget( 0, 2, new HTML( "<b>Timestamp</b>" )
> > );
>
> > >                 // Create the database if it doesn't exist.
> > >                 try
> > >                 {
> > >                         db = Factory.getInstance().createDatabase();
> > >                         db.open( "database-demo" );
>
> > >                         db.execute( "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS user" );
> > >                         db.execute( "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS user (
> > user_id TEXT NOT
> > > NULL, sessionId TEXT, name TEXT, email TEXT )" );
> > >                 }
> > >                 catch ( DatabaseException e )
> > >                 {
> > >                         RootPanel.get( "demo" ).add( new HTML( "Error
> > opening or creating
> > > database: <font color=\"red\">" + e.toString() + "</font>" ) );
> > >                         // Fatal error. Do not build the interface.
> > >                         return;
> > >                 }
>
> > >                 input.addKeyboardListener( new KeyboardListenerAdapter()
> > >                 {
> > >                         @Override
> > >                         public void onKeyDown( Widget sender, char
> > keyCode, int modifiers )
> > >                         {
> > >                                 if (keyCode ==
> > KeyboardListener.KEY_ENTER)
> > >                                 {
> > >                                         insertPhrase();
> > >                                 }
> > >                         }
> > >                 } );
>
> > >                 addButton.addClickListener( new ClickListener()
> > >                 {
> > >                         public void onClick( Widget sender )
> > >                         {
> > >                                 insertPhrase();
> > >                         }
> > >                 } );
>
> > >                 clearButton.addClickListener( new ClickListener()
> > >                 {
> > >                         public void onClick( Widget sender )
> > >                         {
> > >                                 clearPhrases();
> > >                                 displayRecentPhrases();
> > >                         }
> > >                 } );
>
> > >                 RootPanel.get( "demo" ).add( outerPanel );
> > >                 displayRecentPhrases();
> > >         }
>
> > >         /**
> > >          * Remove all phrases from the database.
> > >          */
> > >         private void clearPhrases()
> > >         {
> > >                 try
> > >                 {
> > >                         db.execute( "DELETE FROM Phrases" );
> > >                 }
> > >                 catch ( DatabaseException e )
> > >                 {
> > >                         Window.alert( e.toString() );
> > >                 }
> > >         }
>
> > >         /**
> > >          * Fill the labels with the phrases from the database.
> > >          */
> > >         private void displayRecentPhrases()
> > >         {
> > >                 try
> > >                 {
> > >                         ResultSet rs = db.execute( "SELECT name, email
> > FROM user" );
> > >                         int i;
>
> > >                         for ( i = 1; rs.isValidRow(); ++i, rs.next() )
> > >                         {
> > >                                 if (i <= NUM_SAVED_ROWS)
> > >                                 {
> > >                                         dataTable.setText( i, 0, i+"" );
> > >                                         dataTable.setText( i, 1,
> > rs.getFieldAsString( 0 ) );
> > >                                         dataTable.setText( i, 2, new
> > Date( rs.getFieldAsLong
> > > ( 1 ) ).toString() );
> > >                                 }
> > >                                 else
> > >                                 {
> > >                                         db.execute( "DELETE FROM user" );
> > >                                 }
> > >                         }
> > >                         // If a phrase has been removed, clear the label.
> > >                         for ( ; i <= NUM_SAVED_ROWS; i++ )
> > >                         {
> > >                                 for ( int j = 0; j <
> > NUM_DATA_TABLE_COLUMNS; j++ )
> > >                                 {
> > >                                         dataTable.clearCell( i, j );
> > >                                 }
> > >                         }
> > >                         rs.close();
> > >                 }
> > >                 catch ( DatabaseException e )
> > >                 {
> > >                         Window.alert( e.toString() );
> > >                 }
> > >         }
>
> > >         /**
> > >          * Add a new phrase to the database.
> > >          */
> > >         private void
>
> ...
>
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