It has been a long time since I wrote JDBC code. I could be remembering it
wrong, but I *thought* you could use those methods to coerce column data to
different types. Maybe someone else can confirm.
On Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at 03:13PM, "Noel Grandin" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Really?
>Fascinating <grin>
>All those years of writing EJB apps, and it never even occurred to me
>that that was possible. I always just called the right thing based on
>the column type of the query :-)
>
>On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 20:55, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That's true, but column data can be extracted in a variety of formats. This
>> will allow the caller to specify which type to use. It will also be
>> necessary when extracting date values for use in JSON serialization,
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