Proper handling SQLite Database Corruption in android

Question

I saw DatabaseErrorHandler interface that have onCorruption method , this interface can be passed to the SQLiteOpenHelper constructor . my question is what is a good implementation to provide in this method ? should i handle the delete side-effect problems only ?? or what causes this method to be called

Answer 1

If there is nothing special you want to do when the database gets corrupted then pass in null . The DefaultDatabaseErrorHandler will be used then. It deletes the database since corruption can't be repaired in SQLite afaik. Luckily it should never happen - SQLite is pretty robust.