[sdo] [SDO-12]: Handling of Unstructured Text

[Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <radup@bea.com>]

Ron Barack:

The methods in Sequence dealing with unstructured text are also
problematic. Sequence.add(int,String) and Sequence.add(int,Object) are
"overloaded" but the functions they perform have nothing to do with each
other. Sequence.add(int,String) is defined as "Adds a new entry with the
SDO text Property", presumably, this throws an exception if the "text"
property is not defined on the object, and Sequence.add(int,Object)
"Adds a new entry with the specified property index and value to the end
of the entries."

Whenever the user wants to call Sequence.add(int,Object) with an object
that happens to be declared as a String, he will probably get the wrong
method.


Steve Brodsky:

The TextType is a special Type with property "text" for holding the
mixed text - its not just any property but a special one.

Resolution: add an example program to read the Java text to the example
that uses this property.



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