On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> On 4 June 2011 08:04, Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It looks like adding support for such a fix to the Postgres driver would be extremely easy. In particular looking
aroundAbstractJdbc2Statement.java:1732
>>
>> case Types.ARRAY:
>> if (in instanceof Array)
>> setArray(parameterIndex, (Array)in);
>> else
>> throw new PSQLException(GT.tr("Cannot cast an instance of {0} to type {1}", new
Object[]{in.getClass().getName(),"Types.ARRAY"}),PSQLState.INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE);
>> break;
>>
>> it could check if in is an array type and if so synthesize the Array object necessary.
>>
>> Does this sound like a reasonable feature request? Did I miss an easier way to do this? It is probably outside of
theJDBC spec but it at least has some traction with H2...
>
> How do you determine the type of the (server-side) array elements?
> i.e. what is the typename that setObject would pass to createArrayOf()
> when it encountered an Object[]?
The patch I put in another branch of this thread does basic type introspection. It handles all the primitive types,
wrappedtypes, and a few SQL types (i.e. Date, Time, Timestamp, byte[])
