Great solution, and it works like a charm, thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kief Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Turbine Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: Insert Text Areas
> Matthew Koranda typed the following on 05:33 PM 3/15/2002 +0100
> >When I want to create a 'text' datatype for mySQL I've found that I need
to
> >set the column type in the schema to VARBINARY which maps top a
mediemblob.
> >I want to make the simplest possible insert function to insert my forms
in
> >the database
>
> I ran into the same situation, what I do is add accessor methods to the
object
> (in the customized Foo.java file which extends the Torque-generated
BaseFoo.java)
> which are used for converting to/from Strings from/to bytes. Here's an
example for
> a field called "summary":
>
> /**
> * Get the Summary as a String
> */
> public String getSummaryText()
> {
> byte[] summary = getSummary();
> if (summary != null)
> return new String(summary);
> else
> return null;
> }
>
> /**
> * Set the value of Summary with a String
> */
> public void setSummaryText(String v)
> {
> setSummary(v.getBytes());
> }
>
> My forms use fields named "summaryText", so ParameterParser uses the
> custom accessor methods, and everything works silky smooth.
>
> Kief
>
>
>
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