android, how to exec a sql file in sqlitedatabase

Question

i have \"food_db.sql\" file stored in /res/raw folder, it has tons of \'insert\' in it.

my question is how to i exec the file and get the data into sqlite databse in

Answer 1

@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
    InputStream is = null;
    try {
        is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.database_init);
        String initSql = IOUtils.toString(is);
        db.execSQL(initSql);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Error loading init SQL from raw", e);
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Error executing init SQL", e);
    } finally {
        IOUtils.closeQuietly(is);
    }
}

An important callout is, SQLiteDatabase.execSQL(String sql) only execute a single SQL statement, multiple statements separated by semicolons are not supported.

I've tried a hard time to find out why my database_init.sql doesn't work as expected.