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SQLCipherStatement.getColumnType returns Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_NULL (0) instead of SQLITE_DATA_NULL (5), breaking room3-sqlite-wrapper on NULL columns #93
net.zetetic.database.sqlcipher.driver.SQLCipherStatement implements androidx.sqlite.SQLiteStatement, and its getColumnType(int) should return androidx.sqlite's SQLITE_DATA_* constants. It currently returns android.database.Cursor.getType(index) unchanged. The two agree for INTEGER, FLOAT, TEXT and BLOB (1–4), but NULL is Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_NULL = 0 versus SQLITE_DATA_NULL = 5. So every NULL column reports 0.
Affected: 4.18.0 (where the Room 3 driver was added), 4.19.0, and master @ bc71616.
Impact
Code that switches on the contract constants fails on the first NULL value. With Room 3's room3-sqlite-wrapper, roomDatabase.getSupportWrapper().query(...) throws while building the Cursor:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown column type: 0
at androidx.room3.support.RoomSupportSQLite.toCursor(RoomSupportSQLite.kt:126)
at androidx.room3.support.RoomSupportSQLiteDatabase$query$1$1.invokeSuspend(RoomSupportSQLiteDatabase.kt:154)
at androidx.room3.coroutines.PassthroughConnection.usePrepared(PassthroughConnectionPool.kt:165)
...
We hit this in a production app migrating to Room 3: its ContentProvider queries go through getSupportWrapper(), and they crashed on rows with NULL columns. Room-generated DAO code uses isNull(), so plain DAO usage isn't affected.
Minimal reproduction
System.loadLibrary("sqlcipher")
val connection =SQLCipherDriver("pw".toByteArray(), null, null).open(dbFile.absolutePath)
connection.prepare("SELECT NULL").use { statement ->
statement.step()
statement.getColumnType(0) // expected SQLITE_DATA_NULL (5), actual 0
}
Reference fix
A fix with two instrumented tests is in a personal fork. It is not submitted as a PR here, pending your contributor-agreement process: ZoeyJones#1
It maps each Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_* to the matching SQLite.SQLITE_DATA_* explicitly, and throws on an unknown value.
The tests fail on unmodified master (expected:<5> but was:<0>, and the Unknown column type: 0 above).
With the fix, the whole net.zetetic.database.sqlcipher.driver package passes: 37/37 on an API 36 arm64 emulator.
Thanks for submitting this, it's looks good. Would you mind contacting us at support@zetetic.net to sign a contributor agreement so this change can be merged in?
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developernotes commentedon Sep 25, 2026
Hi @ZoeyJones,
Thanks for submitting this, it's looks good. Would you mind contacting us at support@zetetic.net to sign a contributor agreement so this change can be merged in?
ZoeyJones commentedon Sep 27, 2026
Contacted over gmail.
ZoeyJones commentedon Sep 28, 2026
Signed the contributor agreement over DocuSign. And here is the pr #94