Chris, I'm basing my opinion here on this statement,
"The method ResultSet.getString, which allocates and returns a new String object, is recommended for retrieving data from CHAR, VARCHAR, and LONGVARCHAR fields." from section 9.3.1 of this document: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/mapping.html I realize this is from 1.4.2 but I could not find a newer version of this document. I would not expect (blindly this time) it to have changed in a backwards-incompatible way. In the end, of course, it really depends on however a particular jdbc driver's implementation. If an obscure database's jdbc driver--after the user did a funny workaround to get some other tool to work--is returning bytes or hex addresses or whatever, but if you can solve it with a cast...why would we want to modify our code to make this particular case work more smoothly? James Dyer Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:28 AM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: have developer question about ClobTransformer and DIH : If your database is indeed sending this as a LONGVARCHAR, I would expect : a default "resultset.getString(index)" to correctly get text from a : LONGVARCHAR column. James: how certain is your expecation? Based on the sparse mentions of LONGVARCHAR in the ResultSet class docs, i'm not convinced getString() will do the right thing.... http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/ResultSet.html#getAsciiStream%28int%29 -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
