How to implement complex queries using a Content Provider?

Question

I am asking this because I am not quite sure of how to work with Android Content Providers. I have a subset of my database with 8 tables and I need to create complex queries to

Answer 1

Below code worked for me. Inside your Application's Content Provider:

public static final String PATH_JOIN_TWO_TABLES = "my_path";

    public static final Uri URI_JOIN_TWO_TABLES =
            Uri.parse("content://" + AUTHORITY + "/" + PATH_JOIN_TWO_TABLES);

    private static final int ID_JOIN_TWO_TABLES = 1001;

    private static final UriMatcher sURIMatcher = new UriMatcher(
            UriMatcher.NO_MATCH);

    static {
        sURIMatcher.addURI(AUTHORITY,
                PATH_JOIN_TWO_TABLES + "/#", ID_JOIN_TWO_TABLES );
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public Cursor query(@NonNull Uri uri, String[] projection, String selection,String[] selectionArgs,
                        String sortOrder, CancellationSignal cancellationSignal) {

        int uriType = sURIMatcher.match(uri);
            switch (uriType) {

                case ID_JOIN_TWO_TABLES:
                    return getWritableDatabase()
                            .rawQuery("select * from " +
                                    "table_one" + " LEFT OUTER JOIN "
                                    + "table_two" + " ON ("
                                    + "table_one.ID"
                                    + " = " + "table_two.id" + ")", null);
            }
        return super.query(uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs, sortOrder, cancellationSignal);
    }

And while making the Query inside your Activity or Fragment:

 Cursor cursor = getActivity().getContentResolver()
                .query(ContentUris.withAppendedId(MYContentProvider.URI_JOIN_TWO_TABLES, MyContentProvider.ID_JOIN_TWO_TABLES), null, null, null, null);

Hope it works for you.