[fdo-internals] Discussion of fix for ticket #471 (Large text fields not showing up)

[Romica Dascalescu]

Chris,

Mapping to a FDO CLOB we will end up having a FdoCLOBValue which will return a FdoByteArray as value.
FdoCLOBValue is not handled too well (in different applications like Map/Map Guide) since we are dealing with big values and will not be exposed as text values.
In case you would like to see those (text) values as strings you may consider mapping them to Unicode strings.
Same FDO returns -1 or 4294967296LL depending of the provider capabilities.
I think we have a similar case where we map a CLOB to a string, I guess is MySQL provider but I’m not too sure about it.

Regards,
Romi.
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From: fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Chris Erickson [chris at cartopac.com]
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Romica,
Thanks, I've followed and done that, except I'm mapping it to a FDO CLOB, is this incorrect?

One problem, the column length returned by the sde sdk is 0, but arccatalog recognizes it as 1073741822 (unlimited?).  Should I just add a special case for this (if (datatype == CLOB and length == 0) length = SOME_BIG_NUMBER))?  The SDE SDK documentation (so surprisingly) is silent on the issue.


chris erickson
developer
chris at cartopac.com
970.493.9500 x 191
970.482.1485 (fax)



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From: fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Romica Dascalescu
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:04 AM
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Subject: RE: [fdo-internals] Discussion of fix for ticket #471 (Large text fields not showing up)

Hi Chris,

SDE_UNICODE is set only for 9.2 provider, since 9.1 SDE libraries don't support Unicode.
ArcSDE 9.2 provider is built enabling unicode support.
In case you want to add support for SE_NCLOB_TYPE you need to look at SE_NSTRING_TYPE, where was added (since it was added late in the provider) and do the same thing.

Regards,
Romi.

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Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:02 AM
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Subject: [fdo-internals] Discussion of fix for ticket #471 (Large text fields not showing up)

Hello,
I'm working on fixing tix # 471, and have the following question.


The problem is in SDEType2FdoType.  There is no handler for the SE_NCLOB_TYPE, which is defined as:



#define SE_NCLOB_TYPE              15  /* UNICODE Character Large Object */



I see another place in here, where the SE_NSTRING_TYPE is handled, but ifdef'ed out when SDE_UNICODE is not set.



My question is this,

When is SDE_UNICODE set?



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chris erickson
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