Re: [Mysql-cocoa-users] TEXT fields as NSData?

[John G. <jo...@jl...>]

BLOB is easy:

Since the contents of a BLOB are unknown and up to the implementor 
(BINARY Large Object), it can only really be returned as raw data (ie. 
NSData)

TEXT is trickier:

I think there was some issue earlier on in the dev of the Framework 
where it was tricky to treat a TEXT object at all (in fact I am not 
sure it is supported in the version of the framework I am using at all)

Potentially to do with string encoding? ie. what character set do you 
use to convert the TEXT object to when you put it into an NSString.

I think someone else may be able to shed some light on this issue as I 
haven't been using TEXT types in my applications

JOhn



On 6 Aug 2004, at 17:25, Aaron Jacobs wrote:

> Can someone explain to me why TEXT and BLOB fields in the database are 
> turned into NSData objects by SMySQL?  Why not NSString?
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