An Android library as ContentProvider for SQLite

THIS IS A DUMP OF IDEAS - PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED AT THE MOMENT (see demo project)

Check the WIKI for further instruction

The library is meant to augment the ContentProvider interface to fit SQLite in a more pronounced way. The aim is to set convention on queries via URI. A lot of facilities are added to ensure

The following Uris are intended to be supported:

General Uri by convention

Generic table support:

Uri: content://<authority>/tableName
Sql: select * from "tableName"

Primary key support:

Uri: content://<authority>/tableName/1
Sql: select * from "tableName" where _id=1

One to many support:

Uri: content://<authority>/tableName/1/child
Sql: select * from "child" where tableName_id=1

Group by & having support:

Uri: content://<authority>/tableName?groupBy=col&having=value
Sql: select * from tableName group by col having value

limit support:

Uri: content://<authority>/tableName?limit=number
Sql: select * from tableName limit number

distinct support:

Uri: content://<authority>/tableName?distinct=true
Sql: select distinct * from tableName limit number

join support (TODO):

Uri: content://<authority>/parent/1/child/2
Sql: select * from child inner join parent on parent._id=child.parent_id;

Info Uri

Gives the ability to query information from the table SQLITE_MASTER and versionning.

content://<authority>/_info

Querying the above will yield the following cursor:

type TEXT | name TEXT | tbl_name TEXT | rootpage INTEGER | sql TEXT

If you are interested to only get the table name, the following should be helpful:

getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse("content://<authority>/_info"), new String[] {"name"}, null, null, null);

To get the current version of the database similar to "select sqlite_version() AS sqlite_version":

	content://<authority>/_info?version

returns the following cursor:

	sqlite_version TEXT

Size management

Executing some file resizing using vacuum

content://<authority>/_vacuum

(TODO) set max size??

Pragma Uris

Ability to execute Pragma calls against SQLite. This is handy to get further info on table or set values such as "PRAGMA synchronous=OFF"

content://<authority>/_pragma?<pragma_name>=<value>

For instance the following will exectute "PRAGMA synchronous=OFF"

content://<authority>/_pragma?synchronous=OFF

The following will give back table information for a specific table:

content://<authority>/_pragma?table_info("tableName")

The resulting cursor is

column name | data type | can be NULL? | the default value for the column

Table creation

If you insert against

content://<authority>/_db?create=<tableName>&withId=<true|false>&foreignKey=[<comma_separated_list_of_parent_tables>]&createdAt=false&updatedAt=false

(TODO) alter?

tableName (mandatory): the table name withId (optional): automatically add "_id PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT" - default is true foreignKey (optional): automatically add <fk_name>_id as foreign key to table creation createdAt (optional): will put a createdAt field which contains creation date - default to insert updatedAt (optional): will put a updatedAt field which contains update date - default to insert

you should have content values put with "column name" mapped to a SQLite type (look at SQLiteType)

	Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://authority/_db?create=table
	ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
	values.put("name", "TEXT");
	values.put("rid", "INTEGER");
	getContentResolver().insert(uri, values);