Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem -- JAVA400-L

Ritchard,
I tried to verify/control the behaviour,
I think that you calculate an extra byte on a string lenght.

Ciao.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:27:07 -0600, Richard Dettinger wrote:

>
>Everything that Dave said is right on, but I would like to add a comment or
>two and then see if anyone has
>any additional opinions on the subject.
>
>1) We really made this change to the default for a couple reasons including
>specification conformance, conformance
>with JDBC drivers for other platforms such as UDB, and the general safety
>issue of making users take explicit
>action if they want to have potentially dangerous behavior.
>
>2) We have had the data truncation connection attribute in both JDBC
>drivers for some time to allow the switching of
>this behavior between compliant and non-compliant.  Because few people were
>running with the compliant beharior,
>we quickly found a couple bugs when we switched the default as Dave noted.
>
>3) Besides changing the default, we did change a couple aspects of how data
>truncation connection property works.
>Here are the basics of the new rules:
>
>A) First, for columns of type NUMERIC and DECIMAL the flag is ignored.  You
>can't turn off data truncations for
>columns of these types because we didn't feel it was a good idea to let
>users stick 100 into a NUMERIC(2)
>column and get the value 10 or 00 no matter what any propety was set to.
>
>B) That being said, there is a concept of significant truncation and
>insignificant truncation with NUMERIC and
>DECIMAL numbers.  The difference is whether the truncation happens to the
>right or left of the decimal postion.
>Truncation to the right of the decimal point (the fractional portion of the
>value) is insignificant and always happens
>silently.  Truncation to the left of the decimal point (the whole number
>portion of the value) is always significant
>and always results in data truncation exceptions.  This behavior is
>designed this way to exactly match how
>interactive SQL and other database interfaces treat the NUMERIC and DECIMAL
>data types.  If you want to
>test examples, use the STRSQL CL command to start iSQL, create a table with
>the column specification you
>want and try some inserts with various sizes.
>
>4) There is a known issue that we have yet to deal with.  The specification
>states that data truncation on a value
>to be written to the database should throw an exception.  If it is not on a
>write to the database, it should be a
>warning.  We have a rather all or nothing view of how to handle truncation
>issues today.  What is really needed
>is to create the DataTruncation object and throw it or issue addWarning for
>it based on the SQL statement that
>the parameter is for.  It is going to take a little time for us to work
>that out but it is along these lines:
>
>statement type:          action:
>SELECT         always warning (the value isn't going into the database)
>UPDATE         always exception (the value is to be put into the database)
>INSERT(simple) always exception (the value is to be put into the database)
>INSERT(subselect)   I think this would always be a warning as the parameter
>would be on the select clause...
>                    can anyone provide an example against this?
>CALL           probably can't know what the parameter will do... throw an
>exception
>
>Whew... I'm tired now.  If anyone has opinions on this stuff, I'd love to
>hear them.
>
>Regards,
>
>Richard D. Dettinger
>AS/400 Java Data Access Team
>
>"TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why
>WILL you say that I am mad?
>The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. "
>
>- Edgar Allan Poe
>"The Tell-Tale Heart"
>
>
>
>
>Dave Wall/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS@midrange.com on 01/11/2001 10:09:57 AM
>
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>
>
>To:   JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>cc:   Christopher Smith/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
>Subject:  Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem
>
>
>
>
>Two things could be going on here.
>
>First, the check-for-truncation default was changed from false to true in
>JTOpen 2.0.  In v4r5 and earlier, this flag defaulted to false so you
>wouldn't know your data was being truncated unless your program set the
>flag to true.  We think it is better (and will match the native JDBC
>driver) to default the other way.  In JTOpen 2.0 we tell you your data is
>being truncated unless you tell us you don't want to know.  So, one
>possibility is your data was always truncated.  In v4r5 and before, since
>the default is no warning, we wrote the data anyway.  Now with the default
>being true, we throw an exception when data is truncated.  To go back to
>the old behavior, set the flag to false -- ";data truncation=false" on your
>URL.  (Also feel free to let us know if you agree with the change).
>
>Second, once we set the default to true we found a couple places where we
>threw exceptions when we shouldn't have (data was not truncated).  We fixed
>these places (SQLReal, SQLDouble and SQLFloat).  The fixes will be out in
>the next open source drop.
>
>David Wall
>AS/400 Toolbox for Java
>
>
>"Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@ticino.com>@midrange.com on 01/10/2001 01:21:34 AM
>
>Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com
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>
>To:   "JAVA400-L@midrange.com" <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
>cc:
>Subject:  JTOpen 2.0 problem
>
>
>
>Hello,
>following error with JTOpen 2.0 (The application work fine with the JTOpen
>shipped with VAJ Enterprise).
>(There is no data truncation...)
>
>com.ibm.vap.common.VapPrepareFailureException: Prepare failure; nested
>exception is:
>        java.sql.DataTruncation: Data truncation
>com.ibm.vap.common.VapPrepareFailureException: Prepare failure; nested
>exception is:
>        java.sql.DataTruncation: Data truncation
>java.sql.DataTruncation: Data truncation at
>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.testDataTruncationAS400JDBCPreparedStatement.java:1891)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.setValue(AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.java:1871)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.setObject(AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.java:1551)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseStringField.setFieldObject(DatabaseStringField.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseTypeField.setObject(DatabaseTypeField.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseConnection.setInputValues(DatabaseConnection.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseConnection.executeQuerySpecWithValues(DatabaseConnection.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseQuerySpec.executeOnConnection(DatabaseQuerySpecjava)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.SqlQuery.executeNonSelectWith(SqlQuery.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.SqlQuery.execute(SqlQuery.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.SqlQuery.execute(SqlQuery.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.RelationalServiceObject.executeQuery(RelationalServiceObject.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.RelationalServiceObject.executeOneInsert(RelationalServiceObject.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.RelationalServiceObject.executeInsert(RelationalServiceObject.java)
>
>
>        at com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ServiceObject.insert(ServiceObject.java)
>        at com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ServiceObject.insert(ServiceObject.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.PersistentHomeCollection.executeInsert(PersistentHomeCollection.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.NewPersistentState.synchronize(NewPersistentState.java)
>
>
>        at com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Version.synchronize(Version.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.Resource.synchronizeVersions(Resource.java)
>        at com.ibm.vap.Persistence.Resource.primPrepare(Resource.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ActiveResourceState.prepare(ActiveResourceState.java)
>
>
>        at com.ibm.vap.Persistence.Resource.prepare(Resource.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ResourceManager.prepareResources(ResourceManager.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ResourceManager.synchronize(ResourceManager.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Transaction.synchronizeToResources(Transaction.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Transaction.primCommit(Transaction.java)
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.ActiveTransactionState.primCommit(ActiveTransactionState.java)
>
>
>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.ActiveTransactionState.commit(ActiveTransactionState.java)
>
>
>        at com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Transaction.commit(Transaction.java)
>
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