password field

[kelly devon]

Good day all,


i have created a jpassword field and i am inserting the new password created into microsoft sql database, the jpassword accepts the input as char[]. when a user creates the password it prints out what the user entered but in the database it is giving me characters i don't recognize, they look like this $#%BNM. the datafield of the database i chose varchar, i tried char. it gave me the same thing please help me thank you.
below is a fragment of the code the asks it to send the data to the database.

 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){ 
 Object source = ae.getActionCommand(); 
 if(Ok.equals(source)){ 
 try{ 
 login = new DBOperator(); 
 stat = login.getStatement(); 
 //stat =login.createStatement(); 
 //String table = "CREATE TABLE Passid(passcode varchar(10))"; 
 char [] val; 
String logtext; 
 val = textfield.getPassword(); 
 //logtext = val.toString(); 

 //logtext = textfield.getName(); 
 System.out.println(val); 

 //stat.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO SECURITY VALUES("+"'"+logtext+"')"); 
 stat.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO SECURITY VALUES("+"'"+val+"')"); 
 // stat.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO ADMIN.PASSWORD"+"(PASSWORD)"+ "VALUES("+"'"+logtext+"')"); 
 this.dispose(); 
 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"you have sucessfully created a new entry","Login",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE); 
 textfield.setText(null); 
 new LoginMenu().setVisible(true); 

 } 
 catch(SQLException qex){ 
 System.out.println(qex.toString()); 
 } 
 } 

 } 
 public static void main(String [] args){ 
 EnterPassword lm = new EnterPassword(); 
 } 
 }

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[K. Tsang]

Well it's a password, the text in the database is most likely encrypted.