Can't get selected item text from ListView

Question

I'm simply trying to get the text being displayed in the ListView for the row the user clicks.

List view and adapter

ListView listCurrent = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.currentlinkslist);

    try {
        SQLiteOpenHelper tractionDatabaseHelper = new TractionDatabaseHelper(this);
        db = tractionDatabaseHelper.getReadableDatabase();
        String query = "SELECT _id, QUESTION FROM QUESTION";

        cursor = db.rawQuery(query, null);

        CursorAdapter listAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                cursor,
                new String[]{"QUESTION"},
                new int[]{android.R.id.text1},0);

        listCurrent.setAdapter(listAdapter);

    }catch(SQLiteException e) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Database unavailable", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }


    AdapterView.OnItemClickListener itemClickListener =
            new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
                public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> listCurrent,
                                        View v, int position, long id) {
                    String selectedItem = listCurrent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();
                    Toast.makeText(AssociateActivity.this,
                            selectedItem , Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                }
            };

    listCurrent.setOnItemClickListener(itemClickListener);

From everything I've seen, this code in the AdapterView.OnItemClickListener should fetch the description:

String selectedItem = listCurrent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();
Toast.makeText(AssociateActivity.this, selectedItem, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

Instead, I keep getting:

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

the method getItemAtPosition() is returning a SQLiteCursor object and this kind of object has no implementations of the method toString(). So in this case you have to return the cursor itself and parse it to your object before you call toString() method.

SQLiteCursor cursor = (SQLiteCursor) listCurrent.getItemAtPosition(position);
 String selectedItem = cursor.getString(columIndex); //columIndex is not the position

Toast.makeText(AssociateActivity.this, selectedItem, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();