Jeff,

 

I downloaded the guide out of svn. It does mention TypeHandler (which is what I used), but it also mentions TypeHandlerCallback.

 

TypeHandler seems very similar to TypeHandlerCallback, with the exception that TypeHandlerCallback seems to have the ability to be applied globally.

 

Which should I use? What is the difference?

 

You were right about the example, it is very similar to what I did.

 

 

P.S.

Mine was more terse….

I don’t use constants unless they are needed in more than one method or their value is not clear what they are doing.

What do you have against the ternary operator?

 

 

--Rick Hightower


From: Jeff Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How do you map a Java boolean property to a VARCHAR(1) that contains 'Y' or 'N'?

 

Sorry - the latest developer's guide in SVN has it.  We update the developer's guide fairly often but, for some reason, don't always update the download page.  So there's a link on the download page called "Latest OpenOffice Documents in Subversion" - then download iBATIS-SqlMaps-2.pdf.

 

I don't know how we expect newcomers to figure that out :(

 

Jeff Butler



 

On 6/29/06, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Comments below…

 


From: Jeff Butler [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:01 PM

Subject: Re: How do you map a Java boolean property to a VARCHAR(1) that contains 'Y' or 'N'?

 

A custom type handler is the right way to do it.  Your code looks amazingly similar to the example for this exact problem in the developer's guide :)

(Great minds think alike…)

 

**What developers guide?

I just searched the iBatis developer guide (the PDF file) for the string "TypeHandler" and it is not in there.

Is this a future version of the developers guide? The one I downloaded on 6/16/2006 does not seem to have this (or did I miss it).

 

You could register the type handler globally so it would always handle any VARCHAR to boolean transalation. 

 

**Nice idea. This app handles all Booleans as VARCHAR(1) Y or N.

 

This is what's shown in the developer's guide.  Specifying the type handler for a specific field in a result is fairly new - we do need to get that into the documentation.  I'll get to that tomorrow (hopefully).

 

** Perhaps in the FAQ as well. I am more than happy to update the FAQ.

 

 

Jeff Butler

 



 

On 6/28/06, Rick < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I found the answer (just by trial and error no documentation per se).

 

Can you tell me if there is a easier/better way?

 

I created a custom type handler and used it as follows:

 

      <resultMap id= "contacts" class ="qcom.cas.mysourcej.poc.model.Contact" >

            <result property= "name" column ="contact_name" />

            <result property= "primaryContact" column ="primary_contact"

                    typeHandler= "qcom.cas.commons.ibatis.typehandler.StringBooleanTypeHandler" />

      </resultMap >

 

 

 

package qcom.cas.commons.ibatis.typehandler;

 

import java.sql.CallableStatement;

import java.sql.PreparedStatement;

import java.sql.ResultSet;

import java.sql.SQLException;

 

import com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.type.TypeHandler;

 

public class StringBooleanTypeHandler implements TypeHandler {

 

            public void setParameter(PreparedStatement ps, int position, Object value,

                                    String jdbcType) throws SQLException {

 

                        Boolean bValue = (Boolean) value;

                        ps.setString(position, bValue.booleanValue() ? "Y" : "N");

 

            }

 

            public Object getResult(ResultSet rs, String name) throws SQLException {

                        return valueOf(rs.getString(name));

            }

 

            public Object getResult(ResultSet rs, int position) throws SQLException {

                        return valueOf(rs.getString(position));

            }

 

            public Object getResult(CallableStatement cs, int position)

                                    throws SQLException {

                        return valueOf(cs.getString(position));

            }

 

            public Object valueOf(String value) {

                        if (value.equals("Y")) {

                                    return Boolean.TRUE;

                        } else {

                                    return Boolean.FALSE;

                        }

            }

 

            public boolean equals(Object value1, String value2) {

                        return valueOf(value2).equals(value1);

            }

 

}

 

Can you tell me if there is a easier/better way?

 


From: Rick [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do you map a Java boolean property to a VARCHAR(1) that contains 'Y' or 'N'?

 

 

I have a SQL map as follows:

 

      <resultMap id= "contacts" class ="qcom.cas.mysourcej.poc.model.Contact" >

            <result property= "name" column ="contact_name" />

            <result property= "primaryContact" column ="primary_contact" />

      </resultMap >

 

The class Contact has a primaryContact field is boolean

The result set is from a column that is equal to 'Y' or 'N' in the database.

 

Is there a way to map a boolean property (primitive) to a VARCHAR(1) NOT NULL column (that has either a 'Y' or a 'N')?

 

This is a legacy database and there is no way I can change the table. I could change the query.

 

 

BTW I am new to iBatis, and I got it talking to a legacy db. I also setup relationships fairly easily.

 

 

I did notice the typeHandler attribute of resultMap but this is not documented in the dtd or user documents.

 

 

 

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