Yes, that's exactly right Nathan. I like to believe the world has changed, and that if we're in such a situation again today, we can just change the data type in the app. :-)
Clinton On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Nathan Maves <nathan.ma...@gmail.com>wrote: > oh right this "feature" was made for the times when you have a nullable > column in a DB, and for some strange reason, you only have a non-nullable > java type like a primitive int. > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Larry Meadors <larry.mead...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Null value replacement makes my head hurt. >> >> It bit me, because it worked exactly the OPPOSITE of what I expected. >> >> When doing a select, if the database value is null, ibatis will use >> the replacement value for your result. >> >> When doing an insert, if the parameter property is the replacement >> value, it'll put null in the database. >> >> So in this case, it's doing nothing. >> >> :-/ >> >> However, IIRC, if you set thing.animal to false, it'll use null in the >> database instead. >> >> Larry >> >> >> PS: Hey, aren't you the captain of "The Love Boat"? Oh, no that was >> Gavin MacLeod...nevermind. :-P >> > >
