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Oracle Date to Java Calendar

 
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I am an Oracle veteran, but fairly new to Java and JDBC.

I am trying to retrieve a date column from an Oracle Database and map it to
a java.util.Calendar type to populate an XML document.

Can someone point me in the proper direction ?

Thanks.

Marc
 
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Sorry . It has been changed
 
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Okay,

I've gotten this far:

Calendar calStart = Calendar.getInstance();
calStart.setTime(rs.getDate("eff_from_date"));

However, the hour is defaulting to 04, and the minutes and seconds both to 00.

How can I stuff the time stamp portion of the Oracle Date into the calendar ?
 
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If you want to see the time component of the database column, then use rs.getTimestamp() instead of rs.getDate(). The API documentation explains the difference between the two, I believe.
 
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Okay now I can see it.. but how do I convert it to a Calendar item?

I want to select an Oracle Date column, and have it end up as a Java Calendar type with both the date and time portion.

Can someone please provide an example of this ?

If I use rs.getTimeStamp, how do I then populate my calendar with this ?

Calendar calEnd = Calendar.getInstance();
calEnd.setTime(rs.getTimeStamp("eff_thru_date"),calEnd);

This has a compile time error on the setTime method telling with incompatible types i.e. getTimeStamp is not of type Long.

If I use calEnd.setTime, this truncates the timeStamp portion.

Please, can someone help. I cannot believe that I could not find an example out there someplace, but I couldn't.
 
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That syntax truncates the time.

That's what I tried 1st .

I am so confused.
 
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Calendar takes a java.util.Date, and java.sql.Timestamp should NOT be treated as a java.util.Date (see the API doc on the former). That MAY be your problem. Try using calendar.setTime( rs.getTimestamp().getTime() )
 
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