androidandroid-roomandroid-databaseobject-oriented-analysisobject-oriented-database

how to add prefix in roomDatabase?


I have a problem in my roomDatabase.

I searched on google and found some solutions but I can't solve my problem.

Can anyone help me?

Note : I want to use Object Oriented in my project.

Error :

Multiple fields have the same columnName: class_id. Field names: classId, classId.

ClassEntry :

@Entity(tableName = "class")

public class ClassEntry {

@PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
@ColumnInfo(name = COLUMN_CLASS_ID)
private int classId;

@ColumnInfo(name = "name")
private String className;
@ColumnInfo(name = "day")
private String classDay;

public ClassEntry(int classId, String className, String classDay) {
    this.classId = classId;
    this.className = className;
    this.classDay = classDay;
}

@Ignore
public ClassEntry(int classId) {
    this.classId = classId;
}

StudentEntry :

@Entity(tableName = "student",
    primaryKeys = {COLUMN_CLASS_ID, COLUMN_STUDENT_ID},
    foreignKeys = {@ForeignKey(
            entity = ClassEntry.class,
            parentColumns = COLUMN_CLASS_ID,
            childColumns = COLUMN_CLASS_ID,
            onDelete = CASCADE)})
public class StudentEntry extends ClassEntry{

@ColumnInfo(name = COLUMN_CLASS_ID)
private int classId;
@NonNull
@ColumnInfo(name = COLUMN_STUDENT_ID)
private String studentId;
@ColumnInfo(name = "first_name")
private String firstName;
@ColumnInfo(name = "last_name")
private String lastName;

public StudentEntry(int classId, @NotNull String studentId, String firstName, String lastName) {
    super(classId);
    this.studentId = studentId;
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;
}

Solution

  • Your issue is that you are extending the StudentEntry class with the ClassEntry class. This is not how you manage related data with Room. You are effectively saying you want a table inside. Rather as you want a one (class) to many (students) relationship.

    As such you want an Object that will contain a ClassEntry and the respective StudentEntries (0 or more). For this you create a normal POJO class embedding the Parent table and relating the child class(es).

    So your ClassEntry class is fine as it is. However your StudentEntry class could be :-

    @Entity(tableName = "student",
            primaryKeys = {COLUMN_CLASS_ID, COLUMN_STUDENT_ID},
            foreignKeys = {@ForeignKey(
                    entity = ClassEntry.class,
                    parentColumns = COLUMN_CLASS_ID,
                    childColumns = COLUMN_CLASS_ID,
                    onDelete = CASCADE)})
    public class StudentEntry /* extends ClassEntry <<<<<<<<<< COMMENTED OUT */ {
    
        @ColumnInfo(name = COLUMN_CLASS_ID)
        private int classId;
        @NonNull
        @ColumnInfo(name = COLUMN_STUDENT_ID)
        private String studentId;
        @ColumnInfo(name = "first_name")
        private String firstName;
        @ColumnInfo(name = "last_name")
        private String lastName;
    
        public StudentEntry(int classId, @NonNull String studentId, String firstName, String lastName) {
            /* super(classId); <<<<<<<<<< COMMENTED OUT */
            this.classId = classId; //<<<<<<<<<< ADDED
            this.studentId = studentId;
            this.firstName = firstName;
            this.lastName = lastName;
        }
    
        public String getFirstName() {
            return firstName;
        }
    
        public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
            this.firstName = firstName;
        }
    
        public String getLastName() {
            return lastName;
        }
    
        public void setLastName(String lastName) {
            this.lastName = lastName;
        }
    
        @NonNull
        public String getStudentId() {
            return studentId;
        }
    
        public void setStudentId(@NonNull String studentId) {
            this.studentId = studentId;
        }
    
        public int getClassId() {
            return classId;
        }
    
        public void setClassId(int classId) {
            this.classId = classId;
        }
    }
    

    Then you add another POJO class such as :-

    class ClassEntryWithStudentEntrys {
    
        @Embedded
        ClassEntry classEntry;
        @Relation(entity = StudentEntry.class,parentColumn = COLUMN_CLASS_ID,entityColumn = COLUMN_CLASS_ID)
        List<StudentEntry> studentEntryList;
    }
    

    The Dao's could be :-

    @Dao
    interface AllDao {
    
        @Insert
        long insert(ClassEntry classEntry);
        @Insert
        long insert(StudentEntry studentEntry);
        @Transaction
        @Query("SELECT * FROM class")
        List<ClassEntryWithStudentEntrys> getAllClassEntriesWithStudentEntries();
    
    }
    

    Working Example using the above

    Consider the following code, this adds 2 Classes Class1 and Class2. Class1 has 2 students added, Class 2 has 3 students added. Finally the ClassEntriesWithStudnetEntries are extracted using the getAllClassEntriesWithStudentEntries Query:-

        dao = db.getAllDao();
    
        long class1 = dao.insert(new ClassEntry(0,"Class1","Mon"));
        dao.insert(new StudentEntry((int)class1,"student1","Mary","Smith"));
        dao.insert(new StudentEntry((int) class1,"student2","Fred","Bloggs"));
        long class2 = dao.insert(new ClassEntry(0,"Class2","Tue"));
        dao.insert(new StudentEntry((int) class2,"student3","Sarah","Tomms"));
        dao.insert(new StudentEntry((int)class2,"student4","Alan","Richardson"));
        dao.insert(new StudentEntry((int)class2,"student5","Jayne","Lockyer"));
    
        List<ClassEntryWithStudentEntrys> classWithStudentsList = dao.getAllClassEntriesWithStudentEntries();
        for (ClassEntryWithStudentEntrys c: classWithStudentsList) {
            Log.d("CLASSSTUDENTINFO","Class is " + c.classEntry.getClassName() + " on Day " + c.classEntry.getClassDay() + " ID is " + c.classEntry.getClassId());
            for (StudentEntry s: c.studentEntryList) {
                Log.d("CLASSSTUDENTINFO","\tStudent is " + s.getFirstName() + "," + s.getLastName() + " Student ID is " + s.getStudentId());
            }
        }
    

    Result as output to the log

    D/CLASSSTUDENTINFO: Class is Class1 on Day Mon ID is 1
    D/CLASSSTUDENTINFO:     Student is Mary,Smith Student ID is student1
    D/CLASSSTUDENTINFO:     Student is Fred,Bloggs Student ID is student2
    D/CLASSSTUDENTINFO: Class is Class2 on Day Tue ID is 2
    D/CLASSSTUDENTINFO:     Student is Sarah,Tomms Student ID is student3
    D/CLASSSTUDENTINFO:     Student is Alan,Richardson Student ID is student4
    D/CLASSSTUDENTINFO:     Student is Jayne,Lockyer Student ID is student5