AW: Oracle - Null and Zero-length string problem

2006-10-06 Thread Thoralf Rickert
Just one idea - I'm not using Oracle - but what about: (column = '' OR column IS NULL) In Torque Criteria.Criterion c1 = criteria.getNewCriterion(COLUMN, , Criteria.EQUAL); Criteria.Criterion c2 = criteria.getNewCriterion(COLUMN, (Object)null, Criteria.ISNULL); criteria.add(c1.or(c2));

RE: Oracle - Null and Zero-length string problem

2006-10-06 Thread Parthasarathy Thandavarayan
Thanks Thoralf, I will try it.. I am sure this will work. I am thinking that instead of building these type of workarounds to take care of db specific idiosyncrasies in our code we should do it in the torque classes. The build expression in torque.util.SQLExpression class accepts the db

AW: Oracle - Null and Zero-length string problem

2006-10-06 Thread Thoralf Rickert
Why cannot we write a code in this method which simply says - if db is of type dboracle and if criteria= then criteria is null Maybe because nobody wrote a patch or a jira issue. :) http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TORQUE

Re: AW: Oracle - Null and Zero-length string problem

2006-10-06 Thread Bill Leng
the actual code that does db operation is in village.jar which is not a part of Torque. Thoralf Rickert wrote: Why cannot we write a code in this method which simply says - if db is of type dboracle and if criteria= then criteria is null Maybe because nobody wrote a patch or a jira issue.