in this case the good developers lived you automagically ignoring that there
is a big problem...IMHO.
it's like the glorious try { } catch { // do nothing }

Your code does not break, but...wait you really did want that?

Gustavo.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Josh Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Thank you.  Yeah, after I posted the question I figured that would
> probably be the response that I would receive.  Essentially, which is
> a good thing I guess, the developers do not want to do anything to the
> data without your explicit direction on what to do.  That makes sense,
> but it would be nice to be able to have a property like
> TruncateStringsToLength that you could set to true to have NHibernate
> do this for you so you do not have to worry about the size of the
> field.  SQL Server automagically truncates the string for you I would
> think it would be acceptable to replicate that behavior since that is
> what the DB would do anyways.  I know that all DB's might not do that
> hence the need for the property.
>
> Thanks for your response!
> Josh
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Roger Kratz<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > It's used by SchemaExport. It may also be used by you (or other fw) if
> you need this info for your own purposes.
> >
> > AFAIK, nh does not use this info for any validation/truncation at all.
> How should this be done in some general way? Truncated? Throw ex? Trim the
> string? etc etc
> >
> > /Roger
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > Från: [email protected] [[email protected]] f&#246;r Josh
> Rogers [[email protected]]
> > Skickat: den 14 juli 2009 20:11
> > Till: [email protected]
> > Ämne: [nhusers] Length attribute in property element
> >
> > I am curious as to whether this serves any purpose?  I just recently
> > had an issue where I was trying to push a string that was too long
> > into a column.  I knew it was too long but I made sure the Length
> > attribute was set to the desired length assuming (which I should not
> > have done) that NHibernate would take care of the truncation of the
> > string.  I assumed that this was the purpose of the length attribute
> > in the mapping file, obviously this is not the case so could someone
> > explain the purpose?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Josh
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>

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