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Craig L Russell edited comment on JDO-751 at 7/8/16 4:38 PM: ------------------------------------------------------------- Starting to work on the specification: Persistent Object Model 6.4.3 java.lang.Optional JDO implementations must support fields of type Optional<T> where T is an Immutable Object Class types, java.util.Date, Enum types, or Persistence-capable Class types. They may be mapped nullable datastore types or to Optional<T> types at the option of the JDO implementation. When instantiating an instance from the datastore, the JDO implementation would get the value v from the datastore and assign the field f = Optional<T>.ofNullable(v). When storing the field in the datastore, the persistence implementation would store the result of v = f.isPresent()?f.get():null. was (Author: clr): Starting to work on the specification: Persistent Object Model 6.4.3 java.lang.Optional JDO implementations must support fields of type Optional<T> where T is any supported Object type. They may be mapped to nullable datastore types or to Optional<T> types at the option of the JDO implementation. When instantiating an instance from the datastore, the JDO implementation would get the value v from the datastore and assign the field f = Optional<T>.ofNullable(v). When storing the field in the datastore, the persistence implementation would store the result of v = f.isPresent()?f.get():null. > Support for Java8 Optional > -------------------------- > > Key: JDO-751 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-751 > Project: JDO > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: specification, tck > Reporter: Andy Jefferson > Fix For: JDO 3.2 > > Attachments: JDO-751-tck-patch-v5.txt > > > java.util.Optional provides a feature that is available in other languages. > Since JDO 3.2 will be for Java8+ then it makes sense to add support for this > as a "supported persistable type" -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)