Re: Dates inserted into Oracle do not have Minutes / Seconds?

From: Ingo Feulner (ing..eulner-tech.com)
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 16:49:13 EST

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    Well, the problem is, that at the first creation of a map out of an
    existing Oracle database the Oracle DATE field is mapped to the JDBC
    DATE type, which means that information (i.e. the time) is lost (what
    might not be expected if you're coming from the Oracle side).

    - Ingo.

    Am 28.11.2005 um 21:42 schrieb Andrus Adamchik:

    > I don't understand why you consider this a bug. If you map it in
    > the Modeler using *JDBC* DATE type, expect the time part to be lost.
    >
    > Meanings of JDBC types are well defined in the spec, independent
    > from the underlying database. In other words if Oracle happens to
    > call this type a "DATE", it still should be treated as TIMESTAMP on
    > the JDBC end. So if you want date+time info be saved, you should be
    > using TIMESTAMP in Cayenne mapping (that is based on JDBC). And you
    > are free to use any compatible native database type with it.
    >
    > Andrus
    >
    >
    > On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:35 PM, Ingo Feulner wrote:
    >
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> meanwhile I "solved" this issue. Problem is, that the DBAttribute
    >> mapping of a DATE Column maps to to DATE in the model, and not to
    >> TIMESTAMP.
    >> There is a class org.objectstyle.cayenne.access.types.UtilDateType
    >> which checks the DBAttribute and converts a java.util.Date then to
    >> the appropriate jdbc class.
    >> But Oracle allows by default to save date + time in a DATE type,
    >> so I would consider this as a bug.
    >>
    >> What do you think?
    >>
    >> Regards, Ingo.
    >>
    >>
    >> Am 24.11.2005 um 19:55 schrieb Ingo Feulner:
    >>
    >>> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> all our inserted dates into an Oracle (10gR2) database are
    >>> missing the
    >>> minutes and seconds.
    >>> The mapping is DB Type DATE to java.util.Date
    >>> Is there a known issue (JDBC driver, NLS_LANG settings, whatever)
    >>> (Haven't found one...).
    >>>
    >>> We're using Cayenne 1.1.3.
    >>>
    >>> Thanks for any help, Ingo.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >



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