Retrieve entire row with ResultSet

Question

Is it possible to retrieve entire row without calling getInt(..) getString(..) for every column?

I have multiple threads, each tread needs to write the result to some thread safe collection.
I want to be able to write the rows directly to this collection, and after that parse the members of this collection and retrieve the values based on column types.

Answer 1

You can build a class like this one, which maps sql data types with java data types:

class Row
{
    public Map <Object,Class> row;
    public static Map <String, Class> TYPE;

    static
    {
        TYPE = new HashMap<String, Class>();

        TYPE.put("INTEGER", Integer.class);
        TYPE.put("TINYINT", Byte.class);
        TYPE.put("SMALLINT", Short.class);
        TYPE.put("BIGINT", Long.class);
        TYPE.put("REAL", Float.class);
        TYPE.put("FLOAT", Double.class);
        TYPE.put("DOUBLE", Double.class);
        TYPE.put("DECIMAL", BigDecimal.class);
        TYPE.put("NUMERIC", BigDecimal.class);
        TYPE.put("BOOLEAN", Boolean.class);
        TYPE.put("CHAR", String.class);
        TYPE.put("VARCHAR", String.class);
        TYPE.put("LONGVARCHAR", String.class);
        TYPE.put("DATE", Date.class);
        TYPE.put("TIME", Time.class);
        TYPE.put("TIMESTAMP", Timestamp.class);
        // ...
    }

    public Row ()
    {
        row = new HashMap<Object,Class>();
    }

    public void add<t> (t data)
    {
        row.put(data, data.getClass());
    }

    public void add (Object data, String sqlType)
    {
        add((Row.TYPE.get(sqlType)) data);
    }

    public static void formTable (ResultSet rs, ArrayList<Row> table)
    {
        if (rs == null) return;

        ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();

        int NumOfCol = rsmd.getColumnCount();

        while (rs.next())
        {
            row = new Row ();

            for(int i = 1; i <= NumOfCol; i++)
            {
                row.add(rs.getObject(i), rsmd.getColumnTypeName(i));
            }

            table.add(row);
        }
    }
}

Which you can use it like this:

List<Row> table = new ArrayList<Row>();

Row row = null;

ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM table_name");

Row.formTable(rs, table);

Then you can retrieve fields and cast them to their respective data types:

for (Row row : table)
{

    for (Object data : row.row.getKeySet())
    {
        System.out.print(" > " + ((row.row.get(data) data));
    }

    System.out.println();

}