Mono Hackers! I've come over a problem with System.Data.Odbc. I know: why the hack use ODBC? My production system is Informix. And I found no (affordable) Informix driver so far. If anybody has a hint in this direction, let me know!
My problem is, that GetValue() always returns the length 255 for CHAR fields when using ODBC. This is because a NULL-character is returned at the end of the string (which in my opinion is the actual bug). This leads to the wrong string size and to a complete mess when I try to display a database result in a ASP.NET DataGrid. If I remove the NULL manually, everything is OK. I tested this with Mono 1.1.6 (on Windows and SLES9/unixODBC); MS .NET behaves OK - no NULL characters and string length is correct. This is no Informix specific behaviour. It appears everytime on every CHAR column when using ODBC. VARCHARS work OK. I have created a test case for the Firebird database in Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74758) for easier reproduction. /daniel -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++ 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
