[ADBA] Supporting BigInteger

[Lance Andersen]

Hi Philippe,

We have never had a request for BigInteger support,  We can consider this for a future release if others also see a common use case. 

> On Dec 4, 2017, at 5:14 AM, Philippe Marschall <pm at netcetera.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> One of the things that bothers me in JDBC is that there is no support for BigInteger. All arbitrary precision numbers, even if they have no decimal places, have to be expressed as BigDecimal. This is annoying because there is no way to communicate with the type that no decimal places are allowed or present.
> 
> Currently ResultMap#get doesn't specify exactly which types have to be supported so I assume it's the same as with ResulSet#getObject.
Yes that is correct.  Keep in mind the javadocs are still a work in process 

Best
Lance
> 
> Cheers
> Philippe

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