Room Database Migration doesnt properly handle ALTER TABLE migration

Question

Java.lang.IllegalStateException

Migration didn\'t properly handle user(therealandroid.github.com.roomcore.java.User).

Expected:

TableInfo{n

Answer 1

The error message is hard to parse, but there's a difference:

TableInfo{name='user', columns={name=Column{name='name', type='TEXT', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, age=Column{name='age', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=0}, id=Column{name='id', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=1}}, foreignKeys=[]} Found:

Found

TableInfo{ name='user', columns={name=Column{name='name', type='TEXT', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, id=Column{name='id', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=1}, age=Column{name='age', type='INTEGER', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}}, foreignKeys=[]}

Age is nullable but Room expected it to be not null.

Change your migration to:

database.execSQL("ALTER TABLE 'user' ADD COLUMN 'age' INTEGER NOT NULL");

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Since this exception explanation is VERY difficult to parse, I have created a small script that does the diff for you.

Example:

mig "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Migration failed. expected:TableInfo{name='user', columns={name=Column{name='name', type='TEXT', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, age=Column{name='age', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=0}, id=Column{name='id', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=1}}, foreignKeys=[]} , found:TableInfo{name='user', columns={name=Column{name='name', type='TEXT', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}, id=Column{name='id', type='INTEGER', notNull=true, primaryKeyPosition=1}, age=Column{name='age', type='INTEGER', notNull=false, primaryKeyPosition=0}}, foreignKeys=[]}"

Result: