[ADBA] Supporting BigInteger

[Lukas Eder]

I definitely see the use-case as well and have missed this functionality
from JDBC in various jobs in the past.

Thanks,
Lukas

2017-12-04 13:35 GMT+01:00 Lance Andersen <lance.andersen at oracle.com>:

> 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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