Action Item #0000 (SDO-56) Revised Proposal

[Frank Budinsky <frankb@ca.ibm.com>]

As discussed in our last call, here is the revised proposal for SDO-56:

In Section 4.1.3 of the core spec, change the last paragraph from this:

An SDO implementation may, but is not required to, support conversion between DataObject and DataType values. For example, getDataObject() on String-type property may return a wrapper DataObject for the string value, and getString() on a DataObject property may do the reverse. The exact behavior of this conversion, if supported, is implementation dependent.

to this:

Conversion between DataType values and wrapper DataObjects (i.e., DataTypeWrappers) is also supported. For example, getDataObject() on a String-type property will return a wrapper DataObject for the string value, and getString() on a DataObject property will do the reverse. Generated wrapper DataObjects contain disconnected copies of their corresponding converted property values. The set of supported conversions specified in DataType Conversions applies similarly to wrappers, that is, if the type of a DataTypeWrapper value property (e.g., Int), is compatible with some other DataType (e.g., String), then conversion from the wrapper to the DataType is allowed.

Thanks,
Frank.