sql
Determine if a ResultSet is scrollable
This is an example of how to determine if a ResultSet is Scrollable. Checking if a ResultSet is scrollable or not implies that you should:
- Load the JDBC driver, using the
forName(String className)
API method of the Class. In this example we use the MySQL JDBC driver. - Create a Connection to the database. Invoke the
getConnection(String url, String user, String password)
API method DriverManager to create the connection. - Create a Statement, using the
createStatement(
) API method of the Connection. - Execute the query to the database, using the
executeQuery(String sql)
API method of the Statement. The results of the query are set in a ResultSet. - Invoke the
getType()
API method of the ResultSet, in order to get the type of the result set. If the type is equal to TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE or TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE, then the Result set is scrollable.
Let’s take a look at the code snippet that follows:
package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core; import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; public class DetermineScrollableResultSet { public static void main(String[] args) { Connection connection = null; try { // Load the MySQL JDBC driver String driverName = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"; Class.forName(driverName); // Create a connection to the database String serverName = "localhost"; String schema = "test"; String url = "jdbc:mysql://" + serverName + "/" + schema; String username = "username"; String password = "password"; connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); System.out.println("Successfully Connected to the database!"); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { System.out.println("Could not find the database driver " + e.getMessage()); } catch (SQLException e) { System.out.println("Could not connect to the database " + e.getMessage()); } try { // Get a result set containing all data from test_table Statement statement = connection.createStatement(); ResultSet results = statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM test_table"); // Get type of the result set int type = results.getType(); if (type == ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE || type == ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE) { System.out.println("Result set is scrollable"); } else { System.out.println("Result set is not scrollable"); } } catch (SQLException e) { System.out.println("Could not retrieve data from the database " + e.getMessage()); } } }
Example Output:
Successfully Connected to the database!
Result set is not scrollable
This was an example of how to determine if a ResultSet is Scrollable in Java.