Saneesh Apte wrote:
> I think I found two bugs (and I hope I am not wasting everyone's time).
> One is minor: the base type of a boolean[] is java.sql.Types.BIT
> instead or java.sql.Types.BOOLEAN. At the very least shouldn't these be
> aliases for the same type?
Types.BOOLEAN does not exist before JDBC3. Client code can use either,
but we have to pick one or the other when returning a value, so we
return BIT.
> And secondly the returned type from a smallint[] is an Integer[]
> instead of a Short[].
smallint is a Types.SMALLINT which is mapped to java.lang.Integer by the
JDBC spec. See appendix B of the spec:
> Note – The JDBC 1.0 specification defined the Java object mapping for the
> SMALLINT and TINYINT JDBC types to be Integer. The Java language did not
> include the Byte and Short data types when the JDBC 1.0 specification was
> finalized. The mapping of SMALLINT and TINYINT to Integer is maintained to
> preserve backwards compatibility.
-O
