Current specdiffs for JDBC 4.2

[Douglas Surber]

At the very least in needs to be JDBCType, not plural.

Douglas



At 03:45 PM 12/20/2012, Lance Andersen - Oracle wrote:
>We had this discussion in August on the 221 list and given not all 
>of the types are ANSI, such as ROWID, it was agreed at that time to 
>leave the class name as is and highlight the types which correspond 
>to ANSI types as such in the enum.  I am not keen on going from 
>JDBCTypes -> ANSITypes.
>
>If you have an alternate name besides ANSITypes we can consider 
>that.
>
>On Dec 20, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Douglas Surber wrote:
>
> > The name JDBCTypes doesn't work for me. First it is a plural 
> noun. Generally classes are singular nouns unless the class 
> specifically represents a group of things such as Properties. We do 
> have a class Types, but it is just a group of static final ints. 
> Second the elements are not types that "belong" to JDBC somehow. 
> They are the ANSI SQL types. ANSIType would be better.
> >
> > SQLType is the interface that spans all SQL types, ANSI and 
> non-ANSI. ANSITypes would be the SQL types that are specified by 
> the ANSI standard. If a vendor such as Oracle adds some additional 
> types those would be listed in an enum named OracleType that 
> implements SQLType. Further because the standard has 
> java.sql.Types, Oracle has already added oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes. 
> If the standard adds JDBCTypes, Oracle cannot use the parallel name 
> since it is already used for another purpose.
> >
> > Douglas
> >
> >
> > At 08:53 AM 12/18/2012, Lance Andersen - Oracle wrote:
> >> Can be found at 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lancea/8005080/specdiffs.00/. 
> Currently I am having issues pulling over the openjdk website to 
> update so from talking with Alan this made the most sense to do.
> >>
> >> There will be additional changes for 310 in which will add a 
> couple of methods to java.sql Date, Time, Timestamp to aid in 
> moving to/from LocalDate, LocalDateTime, LocalTime.   This will be 
> done as part of the 310 integration work.  When310 integration is 
> done, updates will also be added to Types.java and JDBCTypes.java
> >>
> >> No support for SQL Interval or the 310 Period will happen in 
> this release as it is not a priority and we have to think it out 
> more as Period does not quite line up with what we need for SQL 
> Interval (and this is not a big priority from JDBC vendors)
> >>
> >> Additional minor cleanup and clarifications will probably happen 
> in some of the other methods before the end game as time permits
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Lance
> >>
> >>
> >>
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>Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | 
>+1.781.442.2037
>Oracle Java Engineering
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