I'm working on a diagnostic tool for one of my android programs.
In essence, if a user is having issues, I'd like to do something like an SQLite dump
(reference: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite.html) into a string, which I can then email.
Does anyone know if there an easy way to do this from within an android program, or am I going to have interact with the android OS and run the commands that way?
I solved my own problem, by doing a dump of the database to a file, then reading the file into a string. For those interested, the following gives you the general idea:
String dbPath = "/data/data/com.company.project/databases/project.db";
String outputPath = "/data/data/com.company.project/databaseDump.txt";
Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("sqlite3 " + dbPath + " '.dump' > " + outputPath);
proc.waitFor();
returnString = FileUtil.getStringFromFile(outputPath);
EDT
So the above had an issue and I didn't see it, because I ran the SQLite3
command from the adb.
It looks like SQLite3
is a command you can run from the adb
, but it is not necessarily on the phone. Based on that I took a different approach. I used android's DatabaseUtils to help me build the result I needed, e.g. DatabaseUtils.dumpCursorToString(cursor)
. I did this for each of the tables I was interested in and built a return string.