On Dec 19 2009, 2:05 am, kristianlm <kristianl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Elliott,
>
> what exactly does it mean that the driver is unsupported and that
> it shouldn't be used?
>
> are you saying that JDBC should not be used at all?
you can use JDBC, though it isn't well tested. but we do publicly
support the java.sql API.
> without
> loading the jdbc driver with Class.forName() it isn't registered.
that's the part that's unsupported: do not assume that any given
Android device has that JDBC driver available. it's unsupported,
undocumented, and you really really don't want to be using it.
> that concludes the code snippet in Joerg's post above is
> not allowed?
correct.
--elliott
> Thanks a bunch,
> - Kris
>
> On Dec 15, 12:42 am, enh <enh+...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > theJDBCdriver is undocumented because it's unsupported. please do
> > not use reflection to access undocumented/unsupported API.
>
> > --elliott
>
> > On Dec 14, 5:29 am, kristianlm <kristianl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi jotobject,
> > > I don't understant why this wouldn't be part of the public API. if
> > > Android is shipped with aJDBCdriver, why not let people use it? It's
> > > certainly useful for many of us!
>
> > > Kris
>
> > > On Dec 12, 10:42 pm, jotobjects <jotobje...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On Dec 8, 10:41 pm, Joerg Pleumann <joerg.pleum...@gmail.com> 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
> > > >JDBCalways 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).
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