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  3. January 2001

Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem

  • Subject: Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem
  • From: "Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:54:48 +0100
 
Ritschard,
further verification,
a string imported form DB2/400 and placed on an etitable JComboBox, withouth 
modification of the string,
cause the problem.
The string seem not to be trimmed by VAJ Persistent Builder....

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
>
>Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>
>Sent by:  owner-java400-l@midrange.com
>
>
>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
>
>Sent by:  owner-java400-l@midrange.com
>
>
>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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