Java Date for Sql insert

Question

I was trying to insert a date into oracle database but I keep facing an conversion issue.

public List<Customer> getCustomerData(Date start, Date end) {
...
String query = "SELECT name FROM customers WHERE trunc(order_timestamp) between trunc(?) and trunc(?)";

DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
pst.setDate(1, new java.sql.Date(sdf.parse(sdf.format(start)).getTime()));

pst.setDate(2,  new java.sql.Date(sdf.parse(sdf.format(end)).getTime()));

}

From the caller I have

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date start = sdf.parse("10/10/2014");
Date end = sdf.parse("10/10/2016");
customerDao.getCustomerData(start,end);

Error I got was:

Caused by: org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: Data conversion error converting "2014-10-10"; SQL statement:
select name from customers where trunc(order_timestamp) between trunc(?) and trunc(?)  [22018-160]
    at org.h2.message.DbException.getJdbcSQLException(DbException.java:329)
    at org.h2.message.DbException.get(DbException.java:158)
    at org.h2.value.Value.convertTo(Value.java:852)
    at org.h2.engine.FunctionAlias$JavaMethod.getValue(FunctionAlias.java:366)
    at org.h2.expression.JavaFunction.getValue(JavaFunction.java:38)
    at org.h2.expression.Comparison.getValue(Comparison.java:206)
    at org.h2.expression.ConditionAndOr.getValue(ConditionAndOr.java:83)
    at org.h2.expression.ConditionAndOr.getValue(ConditionAndOr.java:90)
    at org.h2.expression.Expression.getBooleanValue(Expression.java:180)
    at org.h2.command.dml.Select.queryFlat(Select.java:514)
    at org.h2.command.dml.Select.queryWithoutCache(Select.java:617)
    at org.h2.command.dml.Query.query(Query.java:298)
    at org.h2.command.dml.Query.query(Query.java:268)
    at org.h2.command.dml.Query.query(Query.java:37)
    at org.h2.command.CommandContainer.query(CommandContainer.java:82)
    at org.h2.command.Command.executeQuery(Command.java:185)
    at org.h2.jdbc.JdbcPreparedStatement.executeQuery(JdbcPreparedStatement.java:96)
    at com.customerDaoImpl.custDao.getParentContextdata(custDao.java:431)
    ... 29 more
Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "2014-10-10"
    at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:1222)
    at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:510)
    at org.h2.value.Value.convertTo(Value.java:831)
    ... 44 more

what I think happened was that getTime() will reformat the date into yyyy-MM-dd format and while the input was n MM/dd/yyyy format. But I am not sure if this is exactly what cause the issue.

Edit: H2 doesnt support trunc but you are able to write external script to be invoked.

in Customer.sql

drop ALIAS if exists TRUNC;
CREATE ALIAS TRUNC as '
import java.text.*;
@CODE
double trunc(double num) throws Exception {
    return Math.floor(num*10) /10;
}
';

Answer 1

You're not using Oracle at all, as the stack trace shows. You're using H2. And H2 doesn't seem to have any trunc function accepting a date as argument.

This function call is useless anyway, since you're already passing a date, without any time portion, as argument. The trunc operation, if it existed, would do nothing.

Answer 2

It seems a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP is expected, so use Timestamp instead of sql Date . A java.sql.Date is for days only, setting the parent's class hours, minutes and seconds to zero.

Answer 3

Your external trunc script expects a double as an input, but you're passing a java.sql.Date . Try this for the script:

drop ALIAS if exists TRUNC;
CREATE ALIAS TRUNC as '
import java.text.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.sql.Date;
@CODE
double trunc(Date date) throws Exception {
    return Math.floor(new Long(date.getTime()).doubleValue()*10) / 10;
}
';

Although I suspect you would then get another error complaining that you are trying to compare double values with between . Shouldn't your trunc script return a Date too? If it should, then just return the Date:

drop ALIAS if exists TRUNC;
CREATE ALIAS TRUNC as '
import java.text.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.sql.Date;
@CODE
Date trunc(Date date) throws Exception {
    return date;
}
';

If that works, you can later evolve this script to apply any other operations you want on the date to simulate your trunc behaviour.

For the record, here is the H2 code that is converting your Date into the "yyyy-MM-dd" pattern: ValueDate.java#158 . The string value is stored here Value.java#827 and then used by the Double parser method here: Value.java#876