Re: getXXX methods

Oliver,

Well as Kris pointed out the javadoc is next to useless here. I see no
harm in truncating the data, my assumption being that the user knows
what they are doing.

Dave
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:40, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Dave Cramer wrote:
> > I was thinking that parsing the double would be less efficient than
> > Byte.parseByte().
> >
> > The spec suggests that the user would know what they are doing calling
> > getByte on a double column.
>
> Yeah, specifically table B-6 says you can use getByte() on pretty much
> any numeric SQL type, and (bizarrely) on varchar, char, longvarchar, and
> boolean types too.
>
> The spec & javadoc for java.sql.DataTruncation implies we should
> generate DataTruncation as a warning if we truncate data on read. I
> suppose that loss of precision counts as truncation?
>
> -O
>
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