How to count number of columns in a table in SQLITE?

Question

How can I count the number of columns in a table in a sqlite database in Android?

Answer 1

You can use pragma table_info(foo_table) and count the number of rows returned

Answer 2

A query returns a Cursor which has methods like getColumnCount().

Answer 3

Here is the code and it runs perfectly without any error.

public Cursor getAllTitles(){
   return db.query(DATABASE_TABLE, new String[] {
        KEY_ROWID,KEY_ISBN,KEY_TITLE,KEY_PUBLISHER},
        null,null,null,null,null);
}

Now create the following object in onCreate() method to call above getAllTitles() method.

Cursor c = db.getAllTitles();
c.getColumnCount(); //this line will give the number of columns in table.

Answer 4

Here you go!

-(NSInteger)dbFieldCount:(NSString *)dbname
{
    NSString *query = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"PRAGMA table_info(%@)",dbname];
    const char *query2 = [query UTF8String];
    NSInteger nFields =0;
    sqlite3_stmt *compiledStatement;
    if(sqlite3_prepare_v2(database, query2, -1, &compiledStatement, NULL) == SQLITE_OK) 
    {
         while(sqlite3_step(compiledStatement) == SQLITE_ROW)
         {
               nFields++;
         }
    }
    sqlite3_finalize(compiledStatement);
    return nFields;
}