Using UUID Values With RIFE CreateTable

[David Medinets]

Hi. I was succesful in using RIFE to generate the Create Table SQL for
me. I wrote a short blog entry at
http://affy.blogspot.com/2005/11/using-rife-createtable-to-generate.html.
And I also looked into supporting the UUID Java datatype which I
describe at http://affy.blogspot.com/2005/11/using-uuid-values-with-rife.html.

Supporting UUID values seems quite straightforward. Am I missing some
complexity?

Could I create a change request to officially support the UUID Java data type?

thanks,
david

[Geert Bevin]

Hi David,

thanks a lot for your blog posts.

The main reason why there's no UUID support, is that RIFE still  
targets JDK 1.4 as well as JDK 1.5. Adding support for this requires  
more than a simple additional if statement. It would be a worthwhile  
addition though, can you add an issue for it to the issue tracker  
(http://servlet.uwyn.com/issues/browse/RIFE)?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Geert

On 2-nov-05, at 03:21, David Medinets wrote:

> Hi. I was succesful in using RIFE to generate the Create Table SQL for
> me. I wrote a short blog entry at
> http://affy.blogspot.com/2005/11/using-rife-createtable-to- 
> generate.html.
> And I also looked into supporting the UUID Java datatype which I
> describe at http://affy.blogspot.com/2005/11/using-uuid-values-with- 
> rife.html.
>
> Supporting UUID values seems quite straightforward. Am I missing some
> complexity?
>
> Could I create a change request to officially support the UUID Java  
> data type?
>
> thanks,
> david
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[David Medinets]

On 11/2/05, Geert Bevin <gbevin@...> wrote:
> The main reason why there's no UUID support, is that RIFE still
> targets JDK 1.4 as well as JDK 1.5.

This is a good point. Perhaps we can use something like the following
so that JDK 1.5 is not needed to compile RIFE?

  else if (type.getClass().getName().equals("java.util.UUID")) {
    return "VARCHAR(36)";
  }

I have created a ticket for this issue:
http://servlet.uwyn.com/issues/browse/RIFE-240

-david