PSQLException: this ResultSet is closed

Question

i've occours this strange error for the first time in my life, and i don't know what does it means. I've a class that retrieve information from a table on a postgresql database, do some operations and return an arraylist with parsed element:

ResultSet rs = ProduttoreDCS.getProduttori();
        System.out.println("Recuperato result set produttori");
        ArrayList<String[]> res = new ArrayList<String[]>();


        while (rs.next()) {
            String[] current = new String[6];

            current[0] = Integer.toString(rs.getInt("partita_iva"));
            current[1] = rs.getString("nome");
            current[2] = rs.getString("cognome");
            current[3] = rs.getString("via_sede");
            current[4] = rs.getString("citta_sede");
            current[5] = rs.getString("provincia_sede");

            res.add(current);
            current = null;
        }

        return res;

the error is on "while" line.

public static ResultSet getProduttori() throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
    /*
     * retrieve all record from produttori table
     */
    Connection conn = null;
    ResultSet res = null;
    Statement stmt = null;
    String query = "SELECT * FROM produttore";

    conn = ConnectionManager.getConnection();
    System.out.println("Connection obtained by ProduttoreDCS class");
    stmt = conn.createStatement();
    res = stmt.executeQuery(query);

    stmt.close();
    conn.close();


    return res;   
}

Answer 1

when you close the connection object in your getProduttori method, your result set will be automatically closed. when you try to re use it , it will be null.

ResultSet rs = ProduttoreDCS.getProduttori();
             = null, as you have closed the connection in getProduttori
               method, which will automatically close the resultset 
               thus, it returns null.

From Connection#close

Releases this Connection object's database and JDBC resources immediately instead of waiting for them to be automatically released.

applies same when closing the Statement as well.For your code to work don't close Statement and Connection untill you get the rows.

@Baadshah has already shown you the standard way. If you are using java 7+ you can make use of try-with-resource block, which would make your life simpler.

 try(Connection conn = gettheconn){
     get the statement here
     get the result set 
      perform your ops
 }
 catch(SQLException ex){
   ex.printstacktrace(); 
  }

If you observe, there is no finally block, your connection object will be closed once you exit the try block automatically.you don't have to explicity call Connection#close()