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Globally map boolean fields onto smallint in Postgres [message #1863067]

Sat, 13 January 2024 22:06

Alexander Roytman

Messages: 7
Registered: March 2018

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Hello I was trying to configure eclipselink to save boolean fields to smallint
We are migrating from oracle where booleans were mapped onto number(1) and would like to retain numeric value to prevent potential breakage of related (non jpa) systems consuming our tables directly.

Updating any boolean field results in

Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: column "is_active" is of type smallint but expression is of type boolean
  Hint: You will need to rewrite or cast the expression.

I can, of course, use converters but I do not want to explicitly annotate every boolean field (and useautoApply = true on boolean field - i guess I could but it is rather all inclusive and also may have some performance implication ).

So I was looking for a way to tweak Postgres platform class but could not identify any point where I can do it

I looked into PostgreSQLPlatform and its superclasses and also was trying to trace where I can do it in other classes. It does not look like eclipselink consults platform classes for direct mapping fields. it also does not appear that when handling boolean fields eclipselink chacks JDBC Type at all to alter its behavior (would have been nice when writing/reading boolean to a row/parameter to check its JDBC type and do basic conversion to 0/1

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Thank you,
Alex

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Re: Globally map boolean fields onto smallint in Postgres [message #1863106 is a reply to message #1863067]

Tue, 16 January 2024 18:33

Chris Delahunt

Messages: 60
Registered: December 2021

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JPA specification itself provides the @Convert annotation with an example that allows you to turn boolean into Int regardless of the database:

@Convert(converter=BooleanToIntegerConverter.class)
boolean fullTime;

The boolean type though is held within PostgreSQLPlatform, but I don't recall if this will only handle DDL and if you still need some other mapping to have it convert Integer<->boolean internally - if so, it would also be in the PostgreSQLPlatform method, overriding the type conversion methods of DatabasePlatform.

Best of luck,
Chris

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