Re: Java class for data type mapper?

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:51:51 -0500
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On 28-01-2010 15:12, New Java 456 wrote:

I'm sure someone has this. Need to map data types from all the various
dbs. I can reverse it out of the Postgresql doc but does anyone at
least have a better doc; for I'd have to look up each sqltype
definition from the vendor jdbc classes. http://www.ispirer.com/wiki/sqlways/postgresql/data-types
We need Java code, not a tool. Maybe this mapping exists inside some
ETL open source tool already?


If you have the database running then you can so like this:

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;

public class GetDBTypes {
     public static void test(String driver, String conurl, String un,
String pw) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
         Class.forName(driver);
         Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(conurl, un, pw);
         ResultSet rs = con.getMetaData().getTypeInfo();
         while(rs.next()) {
             System.out.println(rs.getString("TYPE_NAME") + " -> " +
rs.getString("DATA_TYPE"));
         }
         rs.close();
         con.close();
     }
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         test("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", "jdbc:mysql://localhost/Test",
"root", "");
     }
}

Arne

PS: The integer written out is java.sql.Types !

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