RE: getColumnLabel of ResultSetMetaData returns only the field name -- JAVA400-L

OK.  I'll look forward to getColumnLabel support
sometime in the future.

Thanx again, PLA

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[mailto:java400-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Richard Dettinger
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Thers is no getColumnComment method.  There is a field in the ResultSet on
DatabaseMetaData's getColumns method (I believe the remarks column which is
#12 or so) where the comment can be returned.

I believe the toolbox JDBC driver will return the label in that field if
there is no comment.

There would, of course, be a tremendous amount of overhead in trying to get
the label through DatabaseMetaData calls for all ResultSetMetaData requests
of the label which is why they don't do it.

Today, we will never return anything but the column name for
getColumnLabel.  In the future we expect to be able to as the system opens
up extended metadata to us.

Regards,

Richard D. Dettinger
AS/400 Java Data Access Team

"Biologists have a special word for stability -- dead"

                Larry Wall
                Open Source Developers Journal
                Issue 1, Jan  2000


"Patrick L Archibald" <Patrick.Archibald@HomeTelco.com>@midrange.com on
08/24/2001 02:38:45 PM

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Thanks for the info Richard!

In case you need to know, I am using the native JDBC driver,
not the toolbox JDBC driver.

I tried the COMMENT function.  It is not returned
by the getColumnLabel method. I don't see a
getColumnComment method documented.   How would I retrieve
the COMMENT?  Not that I'm going to use this,
I'll just expect the getColumnLabel to work sometime
in the future.  I am just curious.

Thanx again for quick and concise response, PLA

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The iSeries JDBC drivers return the column name today as you have noticed.
Sorry.  There is some work being done to investigate how hard it would be
to make it possible for the drivers to get this information in a future
release.

For now, I think your only work around is to use the
DatabaseMetaData.getColumns API to get the information (it is provided
through that interface today).

Of note (and this one even I can't explain), the native JDBC driver can't
return labels today.  It can return comments.  The Toolbox JDBC driver (I
believe) will return either.  Its got something to do with where the data
is stored in the database and the different ways the two drivers get at the
data.

What that means is that the getColumn API for Native JDBC can return info
for a column from:

COMMENT ON lib.table (COLUMN1 IS 'text')

but not this:

LABEL ON COLUMN lib.table (COLUMN1 TEXT IS 'text')

Again, toolbox seems to work with both.

Regards,

Richard D. Dettinger
AS/400 Java Data Access Team

"Biologists have a special word for stability -- dead"

                Larry Wall
                Open Source Developers Journal
                Issue 1, Jan  2000


"Patrick L Archibald" <Patrick.Archibald@HomeTelco.com>@midrange.com on
08/24/2001 01:37:43 PM

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Hi All

I can't get the getColumnLabel from a to work like
I think it should.

After creating the SQL table TRASH/ROOT1 from STRSQL tool,
I've done the following:

label on column trash/root1 (dircname is 'Directory Name')

label on column trash/root1 (dircname text is 'Directory Name')

When I use the getColumnLabel from a ResultSetMetaData in
my servlet I get just the field name DIRCNAME returned.

I'm stumped. Does OS/400 not support this method or? I've
searched the newsgroups using google and found many others
on different systems having trouble with this. Some said
that it only works if you specify the "AS" in the "SELECT"
statement.  I hope that is not the case.  I'm building
HTML tables dynamically on any file.  I would like
to use the column heading or label in the <TH> tags.

Specs: OS/400 V4R5M0 620-2175-832MB WAS 3.5.3 JDK 1.2

BTW, have y'all noticed the changes recently
to the newsgroup search function at http://www.google.com?

Thanx, PLA
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/ Patrick L Archibald
/ http://HomeTelco.com/pla/
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