Android Room Persistence Library: Upsert

Question

Android\'s Room persistence library graciously includes the @Insert and @Update annotations that work for objects or collections. I however have a use case (push notificatio

Answer 1

Perhaps you can make your BaseDao like this.

secure the upsert operation with @Transaction, and try to update only if insertion is failed.

@Dao
public abstract class BaseDao {
    /**
    * Insert an object in the database.
    *
     * @param obj the object to be inserted.
     * @return The SQLite row id
     */
    @Insert(onConflict = OnConflictStrategy.IGNORE)
    public abstract long insert(T obj);

    /**
     * Insert an array of objects in the database.
     *
     * @param obj the objects to be inserted.
     * @return The SQLite row ids   
     */
    @Insert(onConflict = OnConflictStrategy.IGNORE)
    public abstract List insert(List obj);

    /**
     * Update an object from the database.
     *
     * @param obj the object to be updated
     */
    @Update
    public abstract void update(T obj);

    /**
     * Update an array of objects from the database.
     *
     * @param obj the object to be updated
     */
    @Update
    public abstract void update(List obj);

    /**
     * Delete an object from the database
     *
     * @param obj the object to be deleted
     */
    @Delete
    public abstract void delete(T obj);

    @Transaction
    public void upsert(T obj) {
        long id = insert(obj);
        if (id == -1) {
            update(obj);
        }
    }

    @Transaction
    public void upsert(List objList) {
        List insertResult = insert(objList);
        List updateList = new ArrayList<>();

        for (int i = 0; i < insertResult.size(); i++) {
            if (insertResult.get(i) == -1) {
                updateList.add(objList.get(i));
            }
        }

        if (!updateList.isEmpty()) {
            update(updateList);
        }
    }
}