Get Number of Rows returned by ResultSet in Java

Question

I have used a ResultSet that returns certain number of rows. My code is something like this:

ResultSet res = getData();
if(!res.next())
{
    Sy         


        

Answer 1

Another way to differentiate between 0 rows or some rows from a ResultSet:

ResultSet res = getData();

if(!res.isBeforeFirst()){          //res.isBeforeFirst() is true if the cursor
                                   //is before the first row.  If res contains
                                   //no rows, rs.isBeforeFirst() is false.

    System.out.println("0 rows");
}
else{
    while(res.next()){
        // code to display the rows in the table.
    }
}

If you must know the number of rows given a ResultSet, here is a method to get it:

public int getRows(ResultSet res){
    int totalRows = 0;
    try {
        res.last();
        totalRows = res.getRow();
        res.beforeFirst();
    } 
    catch(Exception ex)  {
        return 0;
    }
    return totalRows ;    
}

Answer 2

You could count with sql and retrieve the answer from the resultset like so:

Statment stmt = conn.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE, 
                                     ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY);
ResultSet ct = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [table_name]");
if(ct.next()){
   td.setTotalNumRows(ct.getInt(1));
}

Here I'm counting everything but you can easily modify the SQL to count based on a criteria.