CursorWindow number of columns

Question

How can I know how many columns there are on a CursorWindow? Why it has a getNumRows() but no getNumColumns(), despite having a setNumColumns()?

Why "in the name of God" are you dealing with a `CursorWindow` yourself in the first place? — CommonsWare, Aug 03 '12 at 10:37
[Too long to explain here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11790893/passing-a-cursor-between-processes-parcelable-cursor) TLDR: because it's the only `Cursor`-thingy that implements `Parcelable`. — m0skit0, Aug 03 '12 at 12:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '12 at 13:03

I did it in this most horrible way:

/**
 * Get the number of columns of this CursorWindow. The CursorWindow has to
 * have at least one row.
 */
public static int getCursorWindowNumCols(CursorWindow window) {

    // Ugly hack...
    int j = 0;
    while (true) {
        try {
            window.getString(0, j);
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
            break;
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            // It's a BLOB!
        }
        j++;
    }
    return j;
}

I don't recommend using this. Just posting it if someone has the same problem and needs a quick solution to get moving.

CursorWindow number of columns

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