[ADBA] Supporting BigInteger

[Lance Andersen]

I went back and looked at some of the older JDBC EG archives.  There was a brief discussion on BigInteger at that time but there was not a consensus on the mapping.  


Input welcome to seed the discussion :-)

Best
Lance
> On Dec 4, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Douglas Surber <douglas.surber at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> Douglas
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2017, at 4:53 AM, Lukas Eder <lukas.eder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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