Timestamp.compareTo() problem with jdk1.5

[Kuldeep Tewari]

Hi,
The third line in the following piece of code is throwing ClassCast exception with jdk1.5.

long l=System.currentTimeMillis();
Timestamp ts=new Timestamp(l);
int x=ts.compareTo(new Date());

but the same code runs fine with jdk1.4.
I saw the documentation for both versions. In jdk1.4 compareTo() is defined as:
int compareTo(Object o);

and in jdk1.5 compareTo() is defined as:
int compareTo(Date o);

In both the versions, it is mentioned that the parmeter o for compareTo(), must be a Timestamp object.

Still I'm getting the error only with jdk1.5 setup.

Can anyone help me this?

Thanks in advance.

Kuldeept.

[Remko Strating]

You're trying to cast a superclass to a subclass and that will only succeed if that superclass will point the subclass.

In your example this is not the case so a ClassCastException will be thrown.

If you adjust your code like this. Your code will compile

 
  import java.util.*; 
  import java.sql.Timestamp; 
  
  class Test { 
  
  public static void main(String[] args) { 
  
  long l=System.currentTimeMillis();
Timestamp ts=new Timestamp(l);

int x=ts.compareTo(new Timestamp (new Date().getTime()));

System.out.println(x); 
  
  }
  
    
  }    

I hope this helps.

[Jesper de Jong]

Your code should not work, also not on 1.4, if the API documentation says that the object must be a Timestamp object.

If it does work on Java 1.4, then that's a bug in Java 1.4. If your program relies on this bug, then you should correct your program, because you don't want your program to rely on a bug in a particular Java version.

Have a look at this bug description in Sun's bug database: Bug ID: 4631234 - java.sql.Timestamp.compareTo no longer accepts java.util.Dates in 1.4
[ February 20, 2007: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]