Re: compering date with the data base
Arne VajhQj wrote:
Lew wrote:
Arne VajhQj wrote:
On the Calendar object you can set hh, mm and ss to 0.
I suggest using java.sql.Date and its siblings to interact with the
java.sql interfaces like PreparedStatement and ResultSet. They are
direct subclasse of java.util.Date, set up specifically for SQL
frameworks to recognize.
This is opposite to the usual best practice of using a supertype
declaration whenever feasible, but in this case it is justified. The
java.sql type documents in the code the mapping from SQL to Java, made
precise by the choice of java.sql.Date, Time or Timestamp as the
object type.
Put another way, the java.sql classes belong to the data-access
ontology, so it's OK to use them instead of supertypes when in that
ontology.
If the database actually has a column type with date but no time,
then it is a nice solution.
But if not then I would consider it messy.
Which "it"? For the column that uses the SQL TIMESTAMP type there is
java.sql.Timestamp, mentioned /supra/. That is the point of the
self-documenting nature of these classes. Use java.sql.Date for DATE,
java.sql.Time for TIME, and java.sql.Timestamp for TIMESTAMP. Beautifully
matched. OK, not beautifully - they are ugly, but at least they're matched.
--
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