Hi Adena,
The standard way is to use the class version of the primitive i.e. instead
of int use Integer. You can then check if the value was set by
(fld1==null). And the jdbc code for inserting a null value is easy and
handled by the driver and not your code used to implement you own standard.
No
:)
eek.
thanks!
-Original Message-
From: Evan Ireland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EJB-INT] null values in primitive fields
Adena Galinsky wrote:
>
> Some of our optional fields are represented as primitive types
Adena Galinsky wrote:
>
> Some of our optional fields are represented as primitive types (int, long
> etc) in our entity beans and in the (Oracle) database.
> What is the standard way of indicating that the value was left blank? We
> have created our own standard (-1 = null), but if there's a sta
