Hi Tharindu, How about storing space character instead of empty string. i have not tried it in Oracle db but if that works IMO there will not be an effect on user experience.
Thanks & Regards, Ishara Cooray Senior Software Engineer Mobile : +9477 262 9512 WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Uvindra Dias Jayasinha <uvin...@wso2.com> wrote: > Setting a default value for empty fields being sent seems to be best. > > Furthermore we can have default values set in our DTO objects in case a > given field is omitted altogether. > > So handling both the above scenarios can overcome the limitation in Oracle. > > But I dont know if this is good for the REST API user experience, when > retrieving data that contains these default values. > > On 6 January 2017 at 15:28, Tharindu Dharmarathna <tharin...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Tharindu Dharmarathna <tharin...@wso2.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I faced $Subject in Oracle database while running integration test on C5 >>> on top. >>> >>> *Observation* >>> >>> when insert empty string ("") it was save as null in database. >>> >>> While going through SO I had found [1] , which did happen in oracle >>> database. >>> >>> >>> We have come up with several ways to handle empty strings which user >>> sends through the rest api. >>> >>> 1. Validate the request and send error when giving empty strings >>> 2. Set default value like "N/A" into the fields which send as empty. >>> >>> Is there any other way to handle this problem ?. >>> >>> [1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13278773/null-vs-empty- >>> string-in-oracle >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> *Tharindu Dharmarathna*Software Engineer >>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com >>> lean.enterprise.middleware >>> >>> mobile: *+94779109091 <+94%2077%20910%209091>* >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Tharindu Dharmarathna*Software Engineer >> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com >> lean.enterprise.middleware >> >> mobile: *+94779109091 <+94%2077%20910%209091>* >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Uvindra > > Mobile: 777733962 > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@wso2.org > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > >
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