[Ruby-DBI-devel] DBI::Date problem

[Travis W. <wh...@at...>]

Hello all - I've been using an older version of DBI, 0.0.12, on a DB
server here at work. This older version returns all fetch_hash results
as strings without exception. My workstation is running DBI 0.0.18,
which returns dates as DBI::Date objects. This is convienent most of the
time; however, I'm passing data back and forth using XML RPC, which
means that only standard types are allowed. If I attempt to pass an
array of hashes containing strings, everything is fine. But, if I try to
pass an array of hashes containing strings and DBI::Date objects, a
crash occurs because DBI::Date is not a standard type. Now, onto my
question, is it possible to make a newer version of DBI provide the old
behaviour of always returning strings? This would be very helpful in my
particular case, and I would hate to have to stay with an older version,
I know that I can convert all the data manually, but I'd really rather
not because it's so inefficient to go across the whole set of data if it
isn't necessary.

Thanks much,
Travis Whitton <wh...@at...>