Re: Change in datetime type casting

On 06/29/2012 07:59 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:51:44AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>>>> Which begs the question why does the adapter not do str(value) when creating
>>>> the ARRAY?
>>>
>>> Because it would give a false promise of working. If I put a date in
>>> my db, I'm expecting a date to come out: any other result is an error.
>>> The hstore adapter is documented to take strings mapping: results with
>>> any other mapping is undefined. A better behaviour could be to
>>> explicitly raise an explicit exception, but it would be less efficient
>>> than trusting the user he is using the adapter as documented (see
>>> HstoreAdapter._getquoted_9(): we adapt the dict.values() list, not
>>> iterate on each values).
>>>
>>> If writing a date in and reading a string out is enough for your
>>> application, you can easily write your own specialized hstore adapter
>>> based on the code in extras.py.
>>
>> The following change in extras.py solves the problem for dates and
>> other non string types.:
>>
>> class HstoreAdapter(object):
>>      """Adapt a Python dict to the hstore syntax."""
>>      def __init__(self, wrapped):
>>          self.wrapped = wrapped
>>          for k in self.wrapped:                     <--
>>              self.wrapped[k] = str(self.wrapped[k]) <--
>>
>> Is there a possibility it could find its way into psycopg2 proper?
>
> It would not solve this concern voiced above:
>
>>> Because it would give a false promise of working.

As I said before there is no false promise. hstore is just a fancy
string type. There is no expectation that types will be preserved, so
why maintain the illusion?

>
> Karsten
>


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