Cursor.getType() for API Level <11

Question

I\'m querying the CallLog content provider and need to detect the column types.

In Honeycomb and newer (API Level 11+) you can get a columns preferred data type by c

Answer 1

Expanding on Juan's answer, here is my replacement for the API 11 method Cursor.getType(int i) - for a cursor retuned by an SQL query

public class DbCompat {

    protected static final int FIELD_TYPE_BLOB = 4;
    protected static final int FIELD_TYPE_FLOAT = 2;
    protected static final int FIELD_TYPE_INTEGER = 1;
    protected static final int FIELD_TYPE_NULL = 0;
    protected static final int FIELD_TYPE_STRING = 3;

    static int getType(Cursor cursor, int i) throws Exception {
        SQLiteCursor sqLiteCursor = (SQLiteCursor) cursor;
        CursorWindow cursorWindow = sqLiteCursor.getWindow();
        int pos = cursor.getPosition();
        int type = -1;
        if (cursorWindow.isNull(pos, i)) {
            type = FIELD_TYPE_NULL;
        } else if (cursorWindow.isLong(pos, i)) {
            type = FIELD_TYPE_INTEGER;
        } else if (cursorWindow.isFloat(pos, i)) {
            type = FIELD_TYPE_FLOAT;
        } else if (cursorWindow.isString(pos, i)) {
            type = FIELD_TYPE_STRING;
        } else if (cursorWindow.isBlob(pos, i)) {
            type = FIELD_TYPE_BLOB;
        }

        return type;
    }
}

gist: https://gist.github.com/kassim/c340cbfc5243db3a4826