These classes as submitted by the user community. Presumably, the original author wanted string storage. Feel free to submit a patch with tests for an alternate persistance duration class. Stephen
Robert Fletcher wrote: > Hi > > Is there any particular reason why PersistentDuration uses VARCHAR as > the underlying column type? It means that values are not reliably > sortable in SQL queries as Duration's toString value will not > alphasort. I can understand that trying to sort on a Period would be > undesirable (e.g. 30 days and 12 hours is sometimes > 1 month and > sometimes < 1 month) but Duration is simply a millisecond value under > the hood and that would seem to me the best way to store it. > > Cheers, > Rob Fletcher > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
