Column specification assumes NULL as implicit choice
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Key: TORQUE-105
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TORQUE-105
Project: Torque
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Generator
Affects Versions: 3.3-RC2
Environment: Maven2 plugin, Torque 3.3-RC2 ; tested with Sybase 15.0.2
DEV Edition Windows - should affect all Sybase
Reporter: Sylvain Benoist
When defining a column in a table with the Torque XML model, the assumption is
that if the 'required' attribute is not present, or false, then the column is
produced with no explicit NULL/ NOT NULL text. This leaves the door open to
database specific behaviors.
For example, Sybase... see
http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-as/asg1250e/svrtsg/@Generic__BookTextView/15380.
It says that by default, Sybase assumes that a column without an explicit NULL
or NOT NULL will be translated into a NOT NULL.
This means that from the following XML snippet :
<table name="country" description="Country data">
<column name="country_id" domain="dm_CountryId" required="true"
primaryKey="true" />
<column name="country_name" domain="dm_GenericName30" required="true" />
<column name="iso_source" domain="dm_Boolean" required="true" />
<column name="iso_threechar_code" type="CHAR" size="3" required="false" />
<column name="iso_numeric_code" type="INTEGER" required="false"/>
<column name="active" domain="dm_Boolean" required="true" />
</table>
I end up with the following DDL :
CREATE TABLE country
(
country_id CHAR (2) NOT NULL,
country_name VARCHAR (30) NOT NULL,
iso_source CHAR (1) default 'Y' NOT NULL,
iso_threechar_code CHAR (3),
iso_numeric_code INT,
active CHAR (1) default 'Y' NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT country_PK PRIMARY KEY(country_id)
)
go
And Sybase default this to have all columns as NOT NULL, which is not what I
specified in my XML.
To avoid being dependent on a database configuration option, it would be better
to make things completely explicit, so that
when the 'required' XML attribute is either absent or false, the generated DDL
specifies 'NULL' instead of an empty string.
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