Android: SQLite transactions when using ContentResolver

Question

The goal: refresh database from XML data

The process:

• Start transaction
• Delete all existing rows from the ta

Answer 1

You can get the implementation of the content provider object itself (if in the same process, hint: you can control the provider's process with multiprocess="true" or process="" http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/provider-element.html) using ContentProviderClient.getLocalContentProvider () which can be casted to your provider implementation which can provide extra functionality like a reset() that closes and deletes the database and you can also return a custom Transaction class instance with save() and close() methods.

public class Transaction {
    protected Transaction (SQLiteDatabase database) {
        this.database = database;
        database.beginTransaction ();
    }

    public void save () {
        this.database.setTransactionSuccessful ();
    }

    public void close () {
        this.database.endTransaction ();
    }

    private SQLiteDatabase database;
}

public Transaction createTransaction () {
    return new Transaction (this.dbHelper.getWritableDatabase ());
}

Then:

ContentProviderClient client = getContentResolver ().acquireContentProviderClient (Contract.authorityLocal);
Transaction tx = ((LocalContentProvider) client.getLocalContentProvider ()).createTransaction ();