Realm and auto increment Behavior (Android)

Question

I\'m trying to get data from Realm using an ID as a reference. However, when querying for an ID, I\'ve found that Realm is giving me the same ID for all elements (ID of 0).

Answer 1

The Java binding does not support primary keys yet, but it's on the roadmap and with high priority - see: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/realm-java/6hFqdyoH67w . As a workaround you can use this piece of code for generating keys:

int key;
try {
  key = realm.where(Child_pages.class).max("id").intValue() + 1;
} catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException ex) {
 key = 0;
}

I use singleton factory for generating primary keys as a more generic solution with better performance (no need to query for max("id") every time thanks to AtomicInteger).

There is a long discussion in Realm Git Hub if you need more context: Document how to set an auto increment id?