Deleting Row in SQLite in Android

Question

This might be a dumb question, but I'm new to SQLite and I can't seem to figure this out. I have 1 table that has columns KEY_ROWID, KEY_NAME, KAY_LATITUDE, and KEY_LONGITUDE. I want the user to be able to select one and delete it; Can anyone give me a direction to start in? My question is in the actual deletion of the row given only its name.

Relevant code:

public class BeaconDatabase {

    public static final String KEY_ROWID = "_id";
    public static final String KEY_NAME = "beacon_name";
    public static final String KEY_LATITUDE = "beacon_lat";
    public static final String KEY_LONGITUDE = "beacon_lon";

    private static final String DATABASE_NAME ="BeaconDatabase";
    private static final String DATABASE_TABLE ="beaconTable";
    private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;

    private DbHelper helper;
    private final Context context;
    private SQLiteDatabase db;

    public BeaconDatabase(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    public BeaconDatabase open() {
        helper = new DbHelper(this.context);
        db = helper.getWritableDatabase();
        return this;
    }

    public void close() {
        helper.close();
    }

    public long createEntry(String name, Double lat, Double lon) {
        ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
        cv.put(KEY_NAME, name);
        cv.put(KEY_LATITUDE, lat);
        cv.put(KEY_LONGITUDE, lon);
        return db.insert(DATABASE_TABLE, null, cv);
    }

    public void deleteEntry(long row) {

              // Deletes a row given its rowId, but I want to be able to pass
              // in the name of the KEY_NAME and have it delete that row.
              //db.delete(DATABASE_TABLE, KEY_ROWID + "=" + row, null);
    }

    public String getData() {
        String[] columns = { KEY_ROWID, KEY_NAME, KEY_LATITUDE, KEY_LONGITUDE };
        Cursor cursor = db.query(DATABASE_TABLE, columns, null, null, null, null, null);
        String result = "";

        int iRow = cursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_ROWID);
        int iName = cursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_NAME);
        int iLat = cursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_LATITUDE);
        int iLon = cursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_LONGITUDE);

        for (cursor.moveToFirst(); !cursor.isAfterLast(); cursor.moveToNext()) {
            result += cursor.getString(iRow) + ": " + cursor.getString(iName) + " - " + cursor.getDouble(iLat) + " latitude " + cursor.getDouble(iLon) + " longitude\n";
        }

        return result;

    }

    private static class DbHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {

        public DbHelper(Context context) {
            super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
        }

        @Override
        public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
            db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE " +  DATABASE_TABLE + " (" + 
                    KEY_ROWID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, " +
                    KEY_NAME + " TEXT NOT NULL, " +
                    KEY_LATITUDE + " DOUBLE, " +
                    KEY_LONGITUDE + " DOUBLE);"
            );
        }

        @Override
        public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
            db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + DATABASE_TABLE);
            onCreate(db);
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Try this code

public void deleteRow(String value)
{
SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();       
db.execSQL("DELETE FROM " + TABLE_NAME+ " WHERE "+COlUMN_NAME+"='"+value+"'");
db.close();
}

Answer 2

Works great!

public void deleteNewMelk(String melkCode) {
    getWritableDatabase().delete(your_table, your_column +"=?", new String[]{melkCode});
}

Answer 3

public boolean deleteRow(long l) {
    String where = "ID" + "=" + l;
    return db.delete(TABLE_COUNTRY, where, null) != 0;
}

Answer 4

Try like that may you get your solution

String table = "beaconTable";
String whereClause = "_id=?";
String[] whereArgs = new String[] { String.valueOf(row) };
db.delete(table, whereClause, whereArgs);

Answer 5

it's better to use whereargs too;

db.delete("tablename","id=? and name=?",new String[]{"1","jack"});

this is like useing this command:

delete from tablename where id='1' and name ='jack'

and using delete function in such way is good because it removes sql injections.

Answer 6

You can do something like this, sharing my working code snippet

Make sure query is like this

DELETE FROM tableName WHERE KEY__NAME = 'parameterToMatch'

public void removeSingleFeedback(InputFeedback itemToDelete) {
            //Open the database
            SQLiteDatabase database = this.getWritableDatabase();

            //Execute sql query to remove from database
            //NOTE: When removing by String in SQL, value must be enclosed with ''
            database.execSQL("DELETE FROM " + TABLE_FEEDBACKS + " WHERE "
                    + KEY_CUSTMER_NAME + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrCustName() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_DESIGNATION + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrCustDesignation() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_EMAIL + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrCustEmail() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_CONTACT_NO + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrCustContactNo() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_MOBILE_NO + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrCustMobile() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_CLUSTER_NAME + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrClusterName() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_PRODUCT_NAME + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrProductName() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_INSTALL_VERSION + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrInstalledVersion() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_REQUIREMENTS + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrRequirements() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_CHALLENGES + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrChallenges() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_EXPANSION + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrFutureExpansion() + "'" +
                    " AND " + KEY_COMMENTS + "= '" + itemToDelete.getStrComments() + "'"
            );

            //Close the database
            database.close();
        }