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Archive for March 24th, 2011

Case

In a JDBC DAO, I execute a query to retrieve an object. I get this error:

java.sql.SQLException: Wrong data type: NUMBER in statement [CREATE TABLE Jonathan_Table (TableColumn NUMBER]

Stacktrace

java.sql.SQLException: Wrong data type: NUMBER in statement [CREATE TABLE Jonathan_Table (TableColumn NUMBER]
 at org.hsqldb.jdbc.Util.throwError(Unknown Source)
 at org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(Unknown Source)
 at com.bnpp.pb.risklayer.services.dao.jdbc.JdbcPrimeRiskServerDaoUnitTest.getDataSet(JdbcPrimeRiskServerDaoUnitTest.java:57)
 at org.dbunit.DatabaseTestCase.setUp(DatabaseTestCase.java:154)

Explanation and fix

My original DB is under Oracle, but my DBUnit tests works on HSQL. Yet, types NUMBER and VARCHAR2 are not available under HSQL, this is why the exception is raised.
To fixe the issue, rewrite your scripts, replacing NUMBER and VARCHAR2 with NUMERIC and VARCHAR.

Case

On a unit test with JDBC / DBUnit, extending org.dbunit.DBTestCase, I get this error:

Table 'Jonathan_Lalou_Table' not found in tableMap=org.dbunit.dataset.OrderedTableNameMap[_tableNames=[], _tableMap={}, _caseSensitiveTableNames=false]

Explanation and fix

Indeed, even when you provide a dataset through a flat XML file, DBUnit does not create the tables, but only fills them in. I know, this is paradoxal and most developpers would like to create implicitly the tables prior to filling them…

To fix the issue, add a block like this one, for instance when overriding the method getDataSet():

final PreparedStatement preparedStatement;
preparedStatement = getDatabaseTester().getConnection().getConnection().prepareStatement("CREATE TABLE Jonathan_Lalou_Table ... ");
preparedStatement.executeUpdate();