Oracle in a Nutshell

Datum

Extends java.sql.Object. Datum is the root class for subclasses CHAR, DATE, DatumWithConnection, INTERVALYM, NUMBER, RAW, ROWID, TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMPLTZ, and TIMESTAMPTZ in Oracle9i; Datum is the root class for ARRAY, BFILE, BLOB, CHAR, CLOB, DATE, NUMBER, RAW, REF, ROWID, and STRUCT in Oracle8i.

The constructors for this class are:

Datum(  )

which creates an empty datum or

 Datum(byte[] newData)

which creates a new datum with newData as representation of datum.

Methods

asciiStreamValue( )

Returns java.io.InputStream representation as ASCII representation of the datum object.

bigDecimalValue( )

Returns java.math.BigDecimal representation of the datum object.

binaryStreamValue( )

Returns java.io.InputStream representation of the datum object.

booleanValue( )

Returns Boolean representation of the datum object.

byteValue( )

Returns byte representation of the datum object.

characterStreamValue( )

Returns representation of the datum object.

dateValue( )

Returns java.sql.Date representation of the datum object.

doubleValue( )

Returns a double representation of the datum object

equals(java.lang.Object obj )

Returns Boolean with equality test result with a Datum.

floatValue( )

Returns float representation of the datum object.

getBytes( )

Returns byte array containing a copy of the RDBMS data.

getLength( )

Returns long representing the length of a datum.

getStream( )

Returns java.io.InputStream so the raw data may be read.

intValue( )

Returns int representation of the datum object.

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