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Hi Peter,

I'm sorry I don't know the script syntax.  But here's the case I was trying:
When the values are inserted, insert a java.lang.Double(10)  instead of a double

When specifying the where clause, you will need to use a prepared statement and
call setObject (1, new java.lang.Double(10)) before executing it.

So the question is, should the above scenario work -- a table has Java objects
in its columns and I want to select out some based on the value of another Java
object. If the BLOBs are saved as Java byte[], then I think comparing for
equality should be fairly straightforward.  You already allow for creating
indices on binary columns (which, incidentally is a very nice feature) so the
code must be able to compare binary columns.  Well, that's conjecture.

Hope this gives you more information and I will read-up on the script syntax.
It seems quite nice.

Vidur

Peter Hearty wrote:

> Vidur
>
> With InstantDB you can't compare a double value against a binary value.
> InstantDB knows very little about the structure of binary data. It
> essentially classifies it as a string, a Java object, or as anything else.
> In the case of "anything else" it doesn't know whether its a number, an
> image or whatever, so it doesn't know how to perform the compare.
>
> I couldn't reproduce exactly the same exception though. Maybe you could
> alter the attached script to bring it closer to what you're trying to do?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Hearty
> Lutris Technologies UK Ltd.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vidur Dhanda <vdhanda@active-solutions-inc.com>
> To: instantDB <instantDB@enhydra.org>
> Date: 04 July 2000 21:09
> Subject: InstantDB: longvarbinary column in where clause
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is it possible to test for equality on a longvarbinary column.  When I
> >use a prepared statement -- select * from A where longvarbinarycolumnB =
> >an instance of a Double,  I get an exception:
> >java.sql.SQLException: java.lang.Double
> > at org.enhydra.instantdb.db.SQLProg.execute(SQLProg.java:276)
> > at
> >org.enhydra.instantdb.jdbc.idbPreparedStatement.execute(idbPreparedStatemen
> t.java:92)
> >
> > at
> >org.enhydra.instantdb.jdbc.idbPreparedStatement.executeQuery(idbPreparedSta
> tement.java:59)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Vidur
> >
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