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[Hibernate] New built-in type

[Emmanuel B. <emm...@hi...>]

I've added a new built-in type to support char[] into VARCHAR.
The current implementation serialize the array.

And now I'm thinking about Character[]
Mapping a array of Character into a VARCHAR does not make sense to me 
since there is no notion of null elements in a VARCHAR AFAIK.
The RI does that however. What do you think?

Character[] and Byte[] has to be supported as per the spec, but they do 
not make much sense to me.

Re: [Hibernate] New built-in type

[Max R. A. <max...@jb...>]

> And now I'm thinking about Character[]
> Mapping a array of Character into a VARCHAR does not make sense to me
> since there is no notion of null elements in a VARCHAR AFAIK.
> The RI does that however. What do you think?

> Character[] and Byte[] has to be supported as per the spec, but they do
> not make much sense to me.

In principle I agree with you; but since EJB3 does not have a typesystem
that allows you to choose which type of column you want to persist to it
becomes hard for them ;)

The question I think should be found to find out how they handle arrays
with nulls in it ?

But I think it at least should be challenged.

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