androidgreendaogreendao-generator

GreenDao version change


I am using GreenDAO in my android project. I see a problem in GreenDAO. whenever I make changes to the existing tables and change the version to migrate the changes, GreenDAOis deleting all the tables. I tried to make changes in the GreenDAOgenerated files but it is not going to be the correct procedure and it did not work, however.

@Override
public void onUpgrade(Database db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
  Log.i("greenDAO", "Upgrading schema from version " + oldVersion + " to " + newVersion + " by dropping all tables");
  dropAllTables(db, true);
  onCreate(db);
}

I tried to comment dropAllTables in above code it did not work, the code is regenerating on running the code? Does anybody know how to fix it?

EDIT:
I saw few questions related to this problem but they are OLD threads did not help me.


Solution

  • You can extend DaoMaster.DevOpenHelper and provide your own implementation of onUpgrade.

    Implement your own DevOpenHelper

    public class MyOpenHelper extends DaoMaster.DevOpenHelper {
    
        //..
        //override the constructor here by calling super
        //..
    
        @Override
        public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
            switch(oldVersion) {
            case 1:
                //upgrade logic from version 1 to 2
                /* break was omitted by purpose. */
            case 2:
                //upgrade logic from version 2 to 3
                /* break was omitted by purpose. */
            case 3:
                //upgrade logic from version 3 to 4
                break;
            default:
                throw new IllegalStateException(
                        "unknown oldVersion " + oldVersion);
            }
        }
    }
    

    Instantiate your class

    DaoMaster.DevOpenHelper helper = new MyOpenHelper(this, databaseName, null);
    SQLiteDatabase db = helper.getWritableDatabase();
    DaoMaster daoMaster = new DaoMaster(db);
    

    For more details, checkout how I did it here.