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Thread: How to retrieve data from MYSQL database to JComboBox or to an array

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    Default How to retrieve data from MYSQL database to JComboBox or to an array

    the field type is text
    i really have no idea hope you guys can help me
    Last edited by A4Andy; September 5th, 2011 at 05:33 AM.


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    Default Re: How to retrieve data from MYSQL database to JComboBox or to an array

    Which bit do you have no idea about - constructing a JComboBox, transferring data from resultSet to array/Vector, or retrieving data from MySQL? You should: SELECT a ResultSet from MySQL (java.sql.Connection, java.sql.Statement, java.sql.ResultSet), transfer the data you want to display to the user into an array or java.util.Vector, invoke the JComboBox constructor with the data you've collected.

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    Default Re: How to retrieve data from MYSQL database to JComboBox or to an array

    transferring mysql data to array is my problem

    here is the code that I'm playing with

    public int i;
    public String [] array;
    PreparedStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement("Select * from products");
    ResultSet rs = pstmt.executeQuery();
    while(rs.next())
    {
    array[i]=rs.getString(2);
    i++;
    }
     
    JComboBox combo = new JComboBox(array);

    I'm getting no error but eclipse is suspends the program

    highlighting (exception nullpointer exception)
    array[i]=rs.getString(2);

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    Default Re: How to retrieve data from MYSQL database to JComboBox or to an array

    Where do you give a value to the array variable?
    You give a value to a variable by using the assignment statement:
    array = ....

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    Default Re: How to retrieve data from MYSQL database to JComboBox or to an array

    I change my while statement to
    while(rs.next())
    {
      array=rs.getString(2);
     }

    but I got an error Type mismatch cannot convert from String to String[]
    Last edited by A4Andy; September 5th, 2011 at 09:44 AM.

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    Default Re: How to retrieve data from MYSQL database to JComboBox or to an array

    The array variable is a String[] array.
    The getString() method returns a String.

    You need to give the array variable a value. It is defined as String[]
    You need to use the new statement to give it a String[] value.
    array = new String[1]; // give the variable array a value

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    thanks it's already solved. I forgot the give the array a value

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