SQLite: Cannot bind argument at index 1 because the index is out of range. The statement has 0 parameters

Question

I'm getting the following error, and I have no idea why it is occurring. I was wondering if anyone else might be able to shed some light on the issue.

12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot bind argument at index 1 because the index is out of range.  The statement has 0 parameters.
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteProgram.bind(SQLiteProgram.java:212)
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteProgram.bindString(SQLiteProgram.java:166)
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteProgram.bindAllArgsAsStrings(SQLiteProgram.java:200)
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDirectCursorDriver.query(SQLiteDirectCursorDriver.java:47)
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.rawQueryWithFactory(SQLiteDatabase.java:1314)
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.queryWithFactory(SQLiteDatabase.java:1161)
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.query(SQLiteDatabase.java:1032)
12-25 22:52:50.252: E/AndroidRuntime(813):  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.query(SQLiteDatabase.java:1200)

The code is here:

public Player getPlayer(String name) {
    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();

    String[] projection = {
            PlayerEntry.COLUMN_NAME_PLAYER_NAME,
            PlayerEntry.COLUMN_NAME_PLAYED_GAMES,
            };

    String selection =  PlayerEntry.COLUMN_NAME_PLAYER_NAME ;
    String[] selectionArgs = new String[1];
    selectionArgs[0] = name;

    Cursor cursor = db.query(
            PlayerEntry.TABLE_NAME,  // The table to query
            projection,                               // The columns to return
            selection,                                // The columns for the WHERE clause
            selectionArgs,                            // The values for the WHERE clause
            null,                                     // don't group the rows
            null,                                     // don't filter by row groups
            null                                 // The sort order
            );

    if (cursor != null)
        cursor.moveToFirst();

Answer 1

The selection should be an expression and selectionArgs should have as many elements as there are ? literal placeholders in selection.

Your selection is not an expression and does not have any ? but you have one element in selectionArgs.

You probably want something like:

String selection =  PlayerEntry.COLUMN_NAME_PLAYER_NAME + "=?";

to make it an expression that matches the player name column agains the literal you're binding in selectionArgs[0].

Answer 2

In my case I had the question mark inside single quotes like this '?'. Removing the single quotes resolved the error.

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