how to get a Table object given its name (as String) in Jackcess - jackcess

Question

im starting with java and jackcess, I have this code
public class DataManagement {
static Database db;
static Database dbopen;
static Table Users;
static Set<String> tablename;
static String[] nametabla;
public static void opendatabase(){
try {
dbopen=DatabaseBuilder.open(new File("D:/alex.accdb"));
tablename=dbopen.getTableNames();
nametabla = tablename.toArray(new String[0]);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void readtabla (String name){
System.out.println(name);
for(Column column : name.getColumns()) {
String columnName = column.getName();
System.out.println(columnName + " " );
}
}
public static void main(String[] args){
/*opening an existing database*/
opendatabase();
System.out.println("the name of tables are " + tablename);
System.out.println("the name of table 2 is " + nametabla[1]);
readtabla(nametabla[1]);
}
}
without the "for" inside of the method readtabla I get this
the name of the tables are [Establecimiento, Estado, Medición, Ubicación]
the name of table 2 is Estado
Estado
the problem lies here
for(Column column : name.getColumns())
because name must be (I think) a Table type and I send it as a string type, so how can I convert string type into Table type?
or there's another way ?
thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can use the getTable() method of the Database object to return a Table object:
public static void readtabla (String name) {
System.out.println(name);
Table tbl;
try {
tbl = dbopen.getTable(name);
for(Column column : tbl.getColumns()) {
String columnName = column.getName();
System.out.println(columnName + " " );
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

Answer 2

you can use jackcess-orm to manipulate only java POJOs