I'm running jBoss5.1.0.GA, jboss-seam-2.2.1.Final against an Oracle database
We ran seamgen against an oracle database that had a clob field defined in a table. The generated pages all display what looks like the .toString() of the retrieved Clob
'org.hibernate.lob.SerializableClob@141d27d'
I want to display the actual contents of the Clob as text. When I annotate the column definition and change the return type I get nulls for every item. How am I supposed to display the content when seamgen only displays the object?
This is what seamgen left me with:
@Column(name = "TEXT", nullable = false)
@NotNull
public Clob getText() {
return this.text;
}
It always shows the toString() of the SerializableClob object.
This is what I have currently which returns a null because the text string is null every time:
@Column(name = "TEXT", nullable = false, columnDefinition="CLOB")
@NotNull
public String getText() {
// return this.text;
if(this.text == null){
return null;
}
StringBuffer returnStringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
String strng;
try {
BufferedReader buffy = new BufferedReader(this.text.getCharacterStream());
while((strng = buffy.readLine()) != null){
returnStringBuffer.append(strng);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
return null;
}
return returnStringBuffer.toString();
}
All I want to do is display the contents in a table on the seamgen created pages. Is this a flaw or a feature? Why would you have the content come back as the object instead of the contents? I guess I don't really care why this was done I just need a work around for my project. Could someone point me in the right direction or post an example of how these types of object can be handled?
