Hi Everyone,

I have a table and I want to retrieve one column (RoomName) from this
table and display it as a list.  had tried it but it gives me
exception as " java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: column '_id' does
not exist"

My .java class is

public class RemoveRoom extends Activity
{
         SQLiteDatabase sampleDB = null;
         String SAMPLE_DBNAME = "HomeAutoDataBase";
         String ROOM_TABLE_NAME = "RoomTable";
         String SWITCH_TABLE_NAME = "SwitchTable";
         protected ListAdapter adapter;
         protected ListView roomList;



         @Override
         public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
         {
                 System.out.println ("First statement in RemoveRoom");
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                setContentView(R.layout.roomlist);
                roomList = (ListView) findViewById (R.id.list);
                displayRoomList();

         }

         public void displayRoomList()
         {
                 try
                {
                        sampleDB =  this.openOrCreateDatabase(SAMPLE_DBNAME,
MODE_PRIVATE, null);
                        Cursor c = sampleDB.rawQuery("SELECT RoomName FROM "
+ROOM_TABLE_NAME, null);
                        System.out.println ("Total number of rooms
are"+c.getCount());


                          adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(
                          this,
                          R.layout.roomlist,
                          c,
                          new String[] {"RoomName"},
                          new int[] {R.id.roomname}); //here I got
exception
          roomList.setAdapter(adapter);

                }
                 catch (Exception e)
                 {
                         e.printStackTrace();
                 }
         }

}


my .xml file is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

        <ListView
           android:id="@+id/list"
           android:layout_width="fill_parent"
           android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>

    <TextView
            android:id="@+id/roomname"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>


</LinearLayout>


And my logcat gives me

12-03 10:48:03.540: WARN/System.err(573):
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: column '_id' does not exist
12-03 10:48:03.560: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.database.AbstractCursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(AbstractCursor.java:
314)
12-03 10:48:03.570: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.widget.CursorAdapter.init(CursorAdapter.java:111)
12-03 10:48:03.580: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.widget.CursorAdapter.<init>(CursorAdapter.java:90)
12-03 10:48:03.589: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.widget.ResourceCursorAdapter.<init>(ResourceCursorAdapter.java:
47)
12-03 10:48:03.600: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter.<init>(SimpleCursorAdapter.java:88)
12-03 10:48:03.611: WARN/System.err(573):     at
com.monarch.home.RemoveRoom.displayRoomList(RemoveRoom.java:47)
12-03 10:48:03.640: WARN/System.err(573):     at
com.monarch.home.RemoveRoom.onCreate(RemoveRoom.java:29)
12-03 10:48:03.651: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:
1047)
12-03 10:48:03.660: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
2459)
12-03 10:48:03.669: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
2512)
12-03 10:48:03.679: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119)
12-03 10:48:03.700: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863)
12-03 10:48:03.710: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
12-03 10:48:03.710: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
12-03 10:48:03.720: WARN/System.err(573):     at
android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363)
12-03 10:48:03.730: WARN/System.err(573):     at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
12-03 10:48:03.750: WARN/System.err(573):     at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
12-03 10:48:03.770: WARN/System.err(573):     at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit
$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
12-03 10:48:03.781: WARN/System.err(573):     at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
12-03 10:48:03.790: WARN/System.err(573):     at
dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

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