This is a problem with the Oracle JDBC driver. In their wisdom, Oracle decided that the 9i driver would interpret their database DATE type as java.sql.Date, and thus truncate the time-to-the-second portion that it stores. This, despite the 8i driver treating it as java.sql.Timestamp.
What you need to do is patch the Village software to override this bizarre not-a-bug-according-to-Oracle behaviour. I will send the jar to you directly. Regards TT. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 June 2004 2:46 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DATE and TIMESTAMP in Oracle with Torque 3.1 I am using Torque 3.1 with an Oracle DB. I am trying to create tables that have date/time fields. I find that it makes absolutely no difference whether in the xml I declare the columns as DATE or TIMESTAMP; the DDL and code generated are exactly the same. The effect of this is that the time component of the timesamp is removed before the data is written to the DB. For both DATE and TIMESTAMP fields the generated columns have SQL type DATE and java type java.util.Date. There is a secondary problem. When I retrieve a row from the DB the constructed date object is of type java.sql.Date instead of java.util.Date. The causes an InstantiationException when the returned object is subsequently passed to java.beans.XMLEncoder because the actual value does not match the declared type. The documentation for java.sql.Date in fact warns you that it should NOT be taken as a sub-type of java.util.Date. So, it looks as if we need two fixes: 1. To get full timestamps stored in the DB for Oracle (AFAIK the implementation is correct for mySQL) 2. To ensure that the actual value of a retrieved date or date/time matches its declared type. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access by any other party is unauthorised without the express written permission of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender either via the company switchboard on +44 (0)20 7623 8000, or via e-mail return. If you have received this e-mail in error or wish to read our e-mail disclaimer statement and monitoring policy, please refer to http://www.drkw.com/disc/email/ or contact the sender. 3166 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
