Of course you'd also have to ask how likely is a DB vendor switch? I hear that argument a lot (don't use feature X..you might want to switch databases some day!) and have yet to hear of many cases where a DB vendor switch actually happened.
Jason From: Ryan Shelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Save Generated WHERE Clause Well, if I serialize the Example class, then changing the db vendor isn't an issue, but it's a very good point if I decided to save the actual built SQL statement. -Ryan On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Nathan Maves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: not to rain on the parade but I think the idea of storing sql would be a bad thing. Just imagine the amount of work in the event of a DB vendor switch.... ouch I would say think outside the box and find a different solution to storing the save criteria. Even the idea of serializing the Java class gives me chills. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Ryan Shelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're correct about the Abator example class. The idea is that there will be records in the database that my users want to extract based upon their own criteria. I can allow them to filter dynamically based upon the Example classes, however, if they want to save that filter for later (since they can be complex), I'd like to store it in the database. Since the values of the filter don't change, I don't see a problem with saving the Example class. I did figure out that I could serialize the Example class and store that in the database, and unserialize it when I want to use it, so that is probably the best option for now. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jeff Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assume you are talking about the Abator example classes. But this isn't exactly an Abator issue. iBATIS dynamic SQL is resolved at run time based on the values in the parameter object - so you'd need to capture the SQL after the resolution step and save it somewhere. You could probably do this by tinkering with iBATIS internals, but the easiest way to do it would be to create a custom logger and grab the SQL from the log. Another alternative would be to serialize the example class as you've suggested - but this doesn't save the SQL, it only saves the values in the example class - which would generate the same SQL on reuse. Is this some kind of a user preference or user history thing? Jeff Butler On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Ryan Shelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to be able to save the WHERE clause generated by the Example classes in a database. The purpose is so that I can allow users to create custom filters which distill down to SQL criteria, and then save them for re-use later. I'm curious if anyone else has had a similar requirement, and whether they attempted to serialize the Example object to XML, or if they attempted to capture the generated SQL in another SQL statement. Any thoughts? Thanks! -Ryan
