[jira] Commented: (DERBY-601) Greater support is needed for the use the java.util.calendar class

["Bryan Pendleton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Bryan Pendleton commented on DERBY-601:
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Is the DERBY-651 support that is present in the trunk sufficient to provide this issue's 
requested "support to store and retrieve Calendar data types natively"? Or is there more 
work that needs to be done beyond what DERBY-651 provides?

> Greater support is needed for the use the java.util.calendar class
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>
>                 Key: DERBY-601
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-601
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Miscellaneous
>         Environment: Win XP Pro - Java 1.5.0
>            Reporter: John Bush
>
> It appears as time goes on, the various DATE, TIME, and Timestamp classes are getting more difficult to work with. Not that they are rocket science, but there appears to be a race to deprecate some pretty basic functionality in the base classes that are not accounted for as you get further away from them. 
> Cases in points would be if you want to duplicate a persisted timestamp (date and time with millisecond precision) from a dB. You can't create a natural statement such as 'Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(rs.getTimestamp("ts"));' since the only constructor not deprecated is 'Timestamp(long time)'. You are left with 'Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(rs.getTimestamp("ts").getTime());' or 'Timestamp ts = (Timestamp) rs.getTimestamp("updtTstamp").clone();' (assuming a simple object copy is appropriate and won't get bit doing a compare). It just as messy if you want to handle creating a Timestamp to persist, you are left with 'PreparedStatement ps.setTimestamp(1, new Timestamp(new Date().getTime()));'
> I realize that this issue mostly belongs to the java.sql.* group at Sun since they have chose not to provide anything to bridge their inheritance of deprecation, and also to the java.util.* group at Sun for being more interested in developing java.util.calendar than deprecating sensibly. It would be cool however if any dB vendor would take it upon themselves to provide support to store and retrieve Calendar data types natively, just like any other non simple data types.
>     Thanks for your consideration - John Bush

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