Re: mysql default value

2009-03-19 Thread Larry Meadors
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Kengkaj Sathianpantarit kengka...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, thanks. However, I think it's a bit ugly. And what about if we want to insert null value? You can't: `status` VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'ready', But I do agree, it is kind of ugly.

Re: mysql default value

2009-03-18 Thread Alin Popa
Thanks Kengkaj, But from what I read it seems that nullValue is used to substitute value with a database NULL. The thing is that I'm not allowed to use null since field is NOT NULL. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Kengkaj Sathianpantarit kengka...@gmail.com wrote: Use null value replacement

Re: mysql default value

2009-03-18 Thread Kengkaj Sathianpantarit
However, I think that default value is good in the case that we don't need to specify value in INSERT command. Why don't you just exclude this field in the insert? For update, I think that we should specify value explicitly in the model, error from database is correct behavior in case the field

Re: mysql default value

2009-03-18 Thread Alin Popa
Thanks Nicholoz, This is what I've done. And I also have a facade that will abstract for the user, the insert actions. I thought that ibatis knows how to handle this, or have a trick for it. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Nicholoz Koka Kiknadze kikna...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you just

Re: mysql default value

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Sherwin
What I ususally do: public String getStatus() { return null == status ? Some Default Value : status; } Alin Popa wrote: Thanks Nicholoz, This is what I've done. And I also have a facade that will abstract for the user, the insert actions. I thought that ibatis knows how to handle this, or

Re: mysql default value

2009-03-18 Thread Kengkaj Sathianpantarit
I think it would be better to put initialize code in constructor, putting checking code in getter will make unnecessary checking every time the getter is called. Kengkaj On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Alex Sherwin alex.sher...@acadiasoft.comwrote: What I ususally do: public String

Re: mysql default value

2009-03-18 Thread Nicholoz Koka Kiknadze
I do not like idea of keeping defaults both in database and application. If I have a not nullable database field with some default value, besides setting default value in database I use 'before insert' table trigger that checks if supplied value is NULL and sets it to the desired value. Well, I

mysql default value

2009-03-17 Thread Alin Popa
Hi, I have the following db table (MySQL): CREATE TABLE `examples`(        `id` SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,        `name` VARCHAR(255),        `status` VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'ready',        `description` TEXT ) ENGINE=innodb DEFAULT CHARSET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_bin; Using ibatis sql-map

Re: mysql default value

2009-03-17 Thread Kengkaj Sathianpantarit
Use null value replacement feature, read user manual. Kengkaj On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Alin Popa alin.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have the following db table (MySQL): CREATE TABLE `examples`( `id` SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, `name` VARCHAR(255), `status`