This is a big heads up.

Those who are considering the upgrade should be aware of the significant
change to use int's instead of NumberKeys.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Edens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:45 AM
> To: Will Holcomb
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> Subject: [SOURCE] Issue #TRQS63 modified
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> Issue TRQS63 has just been modified by user russelle
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> You can view the issue detail at the following URL:
>      <http://scarab.werken.com/scarab/issues/id/TRQS63>
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> The following modifications were made to this issue:
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> I like the removal of the ObjectKeys in favor of java types...but why
> change objects to primitive types?  Specifically IntegerKey's to int's?
> Why not make them Integer's instead?
> 
> 
> John's workaround may downgrade this from critical.  But this seems like a
> workaround to a fundamental issue.  An int does not represent null value
> without some special values .  This change was a huge headache for us ...
> so much so we had to bail on RC1.  Most of the issues  were related to
> updates and inserts for foreign keys.  We do a fair amount of narrow
> updates using the doUpdate(Criteria, Criteria) methods.  The other issue
> we  ran  into is the additional coercion into an ObjectKey for int column
> key values.  This could be change to Object if the key type become
> Integer.  We would really like to see object types for keys by default.
> Then the workaround to use primitives could still be used for the minority
> of people that would want it to work that way.  I especially don't like
> having to compare against 0 for an int to see if it is null.  (Not to
> mention that some databases will have keys with a value of 0 in them.)
> Because we use integers as keys for most of our tables this issue must be
> raised.  I don't see why most everyone who takes the 3.0 release will have
> similar issues and problems.
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