Ormlite throwing SQLException on create(). What am I doing wrong?

Question

I'm trying to replace existing database code with Ormlite in a Java project I'm working on.

However, when I call create() to insert an object into the SQLite database, it throws a SQLException. I figure I'm probably making an obvious mistake, but I can't figure out what it is. Here is the code:

public class OrmliteTest {
    private final String DATABASE_URL = "jdbc:sqlite:test.sqlite";
    private JdbcConnectionSource connectionSource = null;
    private Dao<Article, Integer> articleDao;

    public OrmliteTest() throws SQLException{
        connectionSource = new JdbcConnectionSource(DATABASE_URL);

        TableUtils.createTableIfNotExists(connectionSource, Article.class);

        articleDao = DaoManager.createDao(connectionSource, Article.class);

        Article article1 = new Article("articles", "idnumber", "blah blah blah", (int)(new Date().getTime()/1000));

        articleDao.createOrUpdate(article1); // throws SQLException - why?
    }
}

@DatabaseTable(tableName = "articles")
class Article {
    public static final String CATEGORY_FIELD_NAME = "category";
    public static final String ARTICLEID_FIELD_NAME = "articleid";
    public static final String BODY_FIELD_NAME = "body";
    public static final String ADDED_FIELD_NAME = "added";

    @DatabaseField(generatedId = true)
    public int id;

    @DatabaseField(columnName = CATEGORY_FIELD_NAME)
    public String category;

    @DatabaseField(columnName = ARTICLEID_FIELD_NAME)
    public String articleId;

@DatabaseField(columnName = BODY_FIELD_NAME)
    public String body;

    @DatabaseField(columnName = ADDED_FIELD_NAME)
    public int added;

    public Article() {}

    public Article(String category, String articleId, String body, int added) {
        setCategory(category);
        setArticleId(articleId);
        setBody(body);
        setAdded(added);
    }

    ...getters and setters...
}

The exception is thrown on the call to articleDao.createOrUpdate(article1) . Here is the traceback:

java.sql.SQLException: Unable to run insert stmt on object com.myapp.tester.Article@7a36824: INSERT INTO `articles` (`category` ,`storyid` ,`body` ,`added` ) VALUES (?,?,?,?)
    at com.j256.ormlite.misc.SqlExceptionUtil.create(SqlExceptionUtil.java:22)
    at com.j256.ormlite.stmt.mapped.MappedCreate.insert(MappedCreate.java:90)
    at com.j256.ormlite.stmt.StatementExecutor.create(StatementExecutor.java:325)
    at com.j256.ormlite.dao.BaseDaoImpl.create(BaseDaoImpl.java:287)
    at com.j256.ormlite.dao.BaseDaoImpl.createOrUpdate(BaseDaoImpl.java:312)
    at com.myapp.tester.OrmliteBugTester.<init>(OrmliteBugTester.java:128)
    at com.myapp.tester.Tester.main(Tester.java:24)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: NYI
    at org.sqlite.Conn.prepareStatement(Conn.java:217)
at com.j256.ormlite.jdbc.JdbcDatabaseConnection.insert(JdbcDatabaseConnection.java:105)
    at com.j256.ormlite.stmt.mapped.MappedCreate.insert(MappedCreate.java:63)
    ... 5 more

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Well afaik NYI means Not Yet Implemented. I think this thing doesn't support parametrised SQL. Try hardcoding the values you wanna insert directly in your update query String and see if that works

Answer 2

Looking at the source code of SQLite it looks like NYI stands for not yet implemented .

Your version simply isn't completely implemented/done. Upgrade to 3.6.20 which doesn't seem to have these exceptions anymore.

Answer 3

Please make sure that you are using the right SQLite driver with ORMLite . I know the Zentus driver throws NYI exceptions a lot. Here's the manual:

http://ormlite.com/docs/sqlite

To quote:

There are multiple SQLite drivers out there. Make sure you use the Xerial driver and not the Zentus driver which does not support generated ids.