Re: Best way to do this?
harryajh <harryreg_uk@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
I have to process a large number of database records, examine a column
value (can be 10 different values) and set a bean's property depending
on that fields values e.g (vastly cut down)
ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
while (true)
{
ret = new myBean();
String propName = rs.getString(2);
if (propName.equalsIgnoreCase("licence_number"))
{
ret.setLicenceNo(rs.getString(3));
}
else if (propName.equalsIgnoreCase("return_requirement_id"))
{
ret.setReturnReqId(rs.getString(3));
}
}
Hopefully its relativily easy to follow what I'm trying to do, my big
problem though is using a "String" to hold the fields value, this
obviously is not a good idea and surely for performance reasons
neither would -
if (rs.getString(2).equalsIgnoreCase("licence_number"))
or wouldn't it make much difference getting the field value up to 10
times?
A bit lost as to what's the best/efficient way to do this, should I
use a StringBuffer every time? would it be garbage collected? - any
other ideas?
thanks
Your first mistake is thinking that anything you do here will have a
measurable effect on performance. It won't: the run time will always
be dominated by the call to ps.executeQuery().
However, there's another mistake that I can't bring myself to ignore,
so: no, using a String to hold the field's value is not wrong, and
using a StringBuilder will not help you.
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