Figured it out. Making the url all lower-case letters made the error go away ( even though table name had capital letters in it ).
On Aug 16, 2:13 am, bw <ben.weisb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to get data from another app's > ContentProvider. > > From the docs for ContentProvider (http://developer.android.com/guide/ > topics/providers/content-providers.html) > I got that the url format should be: > content://com.example.authority/table_name > > I discovered the authority for the needed ContentProvider by going > through getPackageManager().queryContentProviders(null, 0, 0); > and then iterating to get the providerInfo.authority. > > To get the table name, I found the needed database in the /data/data > folder, and did an sqlite3 .dump on it. > > But when I do a query: > managedQuery("content://authority.for.app.i.want.to.access/ > table_name", null, null, null, null); > > I get the following Exception: > > "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL" > > 08-16 01:33:28.703: ERROR/DatabaseUtils(762): > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL > content://authority.for.app.i.want.to.access/table_name > 08-16 01:33:28.703: ERROR/DatabaseUtils(762): at > app.i.want.to.access.Provider.query(ThisAppsProvider.java:430) > 08-16 01:33:28.703: ERROR/DatabaseUtils(762): at > android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.bulkQuery > (ContentProvider.java:112) > 08-16 01:33:28.703: ERROR/DatabaseUtils(762): at > android.content.ContentProviderNative.onTransact > (ContentProviderNative.java:97) > 08-16 01:33:28.703: ERROR/DatabaseUtils(762): at > android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:287) > 08-16 01:33:28.703: ERROR/DatabaseUtils(762): at > dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) > > Does somebody know how I can fix this? > > Thanks > -Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
