Re: Calling functions with smallint fails

Hi, Kris,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:54 -0500 (EST)
Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> wrote:

> >  From a basic examination of the code, it seems that setShort(int,
> > short) simply serializes the value to a string, making it
> > indistinguishable from an integer.
>
> This has been fixed in the 8.0 driver series as all calls are now strongly
> typed.

And this just broke the persistence abstraction layer in one of our
legacy apps, as they use code like setString(i, obj.toString()) for
everything including Number types. :-(

Now, we have an additional reason to throw this crappy code away, and
replace it with hibernate :-)


Thanks for your great work.
Markus

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