I guess the suffix solution is not harmful and we can always expose the more
elaborate solution if needed later.
On 11 janv. 2010, at 17:23, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> I need to add a way to further define the type of numeric literals.
> Currently HQL supports the use of the 'F', 'D' and 'L' suffixes as
> defined by Java to demarcate floats, doubles and longs respectively. I
> find myself the need to do the same with BigInteger and BigDecimal.
>
> I see two options:
>
> 1) 2 new suffixes ( 'BI' and 'BD'? )
> 2) new escape syntax ( {as BigInteger 10000000} ? )
>
> As a side note, I could in fact just use the CAST function as HQL does
> support notion like CAST( 10000000 AS java.math.BigDecimal ). However
> that results in a SQL cast as well, and we get into potential issues
> with "bad dialect setup". Ideally I am just looking for a way to
> identify the exact java type to use.
>
> As an example of why this is important... The issue I ran into deals
> with the JPA rules for determining query return types. Take a
> multiplication: JPA says that a multiplication that involves a
> BigInteger as one of its operands should return a BigInteger. So
> consider "select some.attributePath * 10000000 ...". If
> 'some.attributePath' is defined as Integer, this multiplication will
> result in a Integer value because the '10000000' literal will also be
> interpreted as Integer.
>
> This can also be useful for parameters as well (although this whole
> issue is generally related to select clauses and many databases have
> well defined restrictions on using parameters in select, at least
> without the explicit CAST so they know what types to expect).
>
> So as far as an escape syntax, I guess the main question is how
> generally useful this might be in other clauses and across other data
> types.
>
> Anyone else run across similar needs that would impact here?
>
> --
> Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org>
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