Limit the query in CursorLoader

Question

I am trying to query data from sqlite db through CursorLoader. When i go through the documentation in android developer website, i can\'t find the limit query.

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Answer 1

The hackish way:

String sortOrder = "ROWID LIMIT 5"

which will result in ORDER BY ROWID LIMIT 5. ROWID would sort by the implicit row ids that SQLite keeps - very close to what happens when you don't specify a sort oder at all. Not that this is abusing the fact that the order parameter does not check if the supplied value is just a valid order type. Kind of a buffer overflow attack.

A better way would be to define Uri parameters.

// query code
Uri queryUri = Uri.parse("content://what/ever/items");
queryUri = queryUri.buildUpon().appendQueryParameter("limit", "5").build();

// in ContentProvider
String limit = queryUri.getQueryParameter("limit");

Both approaches will only work if the ContentProvider is compatible with above attempts to limit. There is actually no well-defined way to limit or select certain data from a ContentProvider. Each ContentProvider comes with it's own contract so above will not work with every provider.