I think you're confusing the hierarchy of your database's types with the hierarchy in Java. In Java, a java.sql.Blob and a java.sql.Clob are 2 different things. They do not extend a common ancestor (excpt java.lang.Object). To write code that deals with both means you need to have separate paths for each object type. There is no way around this. (Compare the situation with Integer, Float, BigDecimal, etc, which all extend Number...In this case, your jdbc code can just expect a Number back from the database regardless of what object a particular jdbc driver decided to return to you.)
James Dyer Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: geeky2 [mailto:gee...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 9:01 PM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: have developer question about ClobTransformer and DIH i still have a disconnect on this (see below) i have been reading on the informix site about BLOB, CLOB and TEXT types. *i miss-stated earlier that a TEXT type "is another type of informix blob" - after reading the dox - this is not true.* >> I think what it comes down to is that a Clob "is-not-a" Blob. << the informix docs indicate the opposite. CLOB and BLOB are sub-classes of smart object types. what is a smart object type (the super class for BLOB and CLOB): http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sqlr.doc/sqlrmst136.htm what is a BLOB type: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sqlr.doc/sqlrmst136.htm what is a CLOB type: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sqlr.doc/sqlrmst136.htm what is a TEXT type: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sqlr.doc/sqlrmst136.htm after reading the above - my disconnect lies with the following: if an informix TEXT type is basically text - then why did solr return the two TEXT fields as binary addresses, when i removed all references to ClobTransformer and the clob="true" switches from the fields in the db-config.xml file?? if TEXT is just text, then there should be no need to leverage ClobTransformer and to "cast" TEXT type fields as CLOBs. see my earlier post on the solr users group for the detail: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/having-trouble-storing-large-text-blob-fields-returns-binary-address-in-search-results-td4063979.html#a4064260 mark -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/have-developer-question-about-ClobTransformer-and-DIH-tp4064256p4064323.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
