JdbcTemplate queryForInt/Long is deprecated in Spring 3.2.2. What should it be replaced by?

Question

The queryforInt/queryforLong methods in JdbcTemplate are deprecated in Spring 3.2. I can\'t find out why or what is considered the best practice to replace existing code using t

Answer 1

I agree with the original poster that deprecating the convenience method queryForLong(sql) is an inconvenience.

I had developed an app using Spring 3.1 and just updated to the latest Spring version (3.2.3) and noticed that it was deprecated.

Fortunately, it was a one line change for me:

return jdbcTemplate.queryForLong(sql);  // deprecated in Spring 3.2.x

was changed to

return jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(sql, Long.class);

And a couple of Unit Tests seem to indicate, the above change works.