Re: Problems with a keyed file read

["Dave Wall" <dawall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris has a few ideas, but we don't really understand the question.  Can
you post your record format and a couple lines of code plus the exception?

David Wall
AS/400 Toolbox for Java

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                    Christopher
                    Smith                To:     Dave Wall/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
                                         cc:
                    09/06/2001           From:   Christopher 
Smith/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
                    09:16 AM             Subject:     Re: Problems with a keyed 
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He should get the field description for that field off of his RecordFormat
and see what type it is. If it's a CharacterFieldDescription, then a String
should be the right thing to use. But since a CHAR(1) on the 400 can mean
just about anything (all they have is CHAR and BIN basically) then it is
possible that the CHAR(1) field is defined as something else... possibly a
HexFieldDescription?


Christopher R. Smith
JTOpen - IBM Toolbox for Java
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/jt400





                    Dave Wall
                                         To:     Christopher 
Smith/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
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                                         Subject:     Problems with a keyed 
file read






Any idea?


David Wall
553-5329
AS/400 Toolbox for Java

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Has anybody ever had any problems useing a keyed read with JTOpen when one
of the key fields in the file is a CHAR of length 1 in the DB2 file?

I keep getting a casting error on my file.read(key) method.  What is seems
like is because the its a CHAR of len 1 java thinks its a type char, but I
can't put type char in the key because key needs to be an array of objects
and primitave types are not objects.  I tried using types Character and
String but both give me the casting error, anybody have any ideas?


Robert Upshall
Professional Software of Amarillo
(806) 358-8928
rupshall@psasoft.com

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