Re: Version 8.0-310 and PreparedStatement.getParameterMetaData()

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Bruce Raggett wrote:

> I have used PreparedStatement.getParameterMetaData() with version
> 8.0-310 and obtained the following results:
> (1) parameterMetaData.getParameterCount() worked correctly.
> (2) parameterMetaData.getParameterType() worked correctly.
> (3) parameterMetaData.getParameterClassName() returned null instead of
> java.lang.String.
>
> Does the third result above indicate a bug, or is this result expected
> at this stage of development?

Both. It clearly doesn't work, so it's a bug, but at the same time the
method is hardcoded to always to return null, so it's missing code instead
of non-working code. I suppose it should throw an Exception instead of
failing silently, but getting it to work can't be that hard.

Kris Jurka