Hiya!
*** I think I sent this wrong earlier - apologies if it duplicates! ***
We are using iBATIS with Java against a quirky AS/400 database. We have used custom TypeHandlers successfully to globally map enums against columns holding String codes, but are now trying to map a variety of codes to Booleans without success.
As an example, I have three string fields, let's say Fred, Hal, Bill and Joe.
- Fred and Hal can have values "A", "N", and "Y"
- Bill has values "Y" and "N" (which mean positive & negative)
- Joe has values "1" and "0" (which also mean positive & negative)
I have made a Java enum to hold the A/N/Y values called FlagANY, and a TypeHandler called TypeHandlerStringANYEnum to convert the string "A", "N" and "Y" values from the db into the enum FlagANY. I've made Fred and Hal into FlagANY enums in the Java class ThingIbatis.
Both Bill and Joe are Booleans in the Java class ThingIbatis, and I have created TypeHandlers TypeHandlerStringYNBoolean and TypeHandlerString01Boolean to convert their varying string values into the appropriate Boolean values.
In the sql-map-config.xml, I can map the FlagANY fields globally, which works fine for Fred and Hal - as they're FlagANY in the Java class, and as their value on the Db are consistent, the TypeHandler gets invoked from the sql-map-config.xml setting, and all is well.
Now, Bill and Joe are both Booleans in the Java class, but their values on the Db differ, so I have to specify their TypeHandlers on a column-by-column basis in the table's XML file. (I tried omitting the " javaType="java.lang.Boolean", but that didn't help)
This ought to work, as far as I can see, but the TypeHandler doesn't ever get invoked. Is there some special syntax I should be using?
Generic TypeHandler in the sql-map-config.xml-
<typeHandler javaType="uk.co.package.user_type.FlagANY" callback="uk.co.package.utils.TypeHandlerStringANYEnum"/>
And in the thing.xml I can define a ResultMap like this -
<resultMap id="thingResult" class="uk.co.package.persistence.ThingIbatis">
<result column="OCFRED" property="Fred"/>
<result column="OCHAL" property="Hal"/>
<result column="OCBILL" property="Bill" javaType="java.lang.Boolean" typeHandler="uk.co.package.utils.TypeHandlerStringYNBoolean"/>
<result column="OCJOE" property="Joe" javaType="java.lang.Boolean" typeHandler="uk.co.package.utils.TypeHandlerString01Boolean"/>
</resultMap>
Cheers
Tracey Annison
