handling DATETIME values 0000-00-00 00:00:00 in JDBC

Question

I get an exception (see below) if I try to do

resultset.getString(\"add_date\");

for a JDBC connection to a MySQL database containing a DA

Answer 1

I suggest you use null to represent a null value.

What is the exception you get?

BTW:

There is no year called 0 or 0000. (Though some dates allow this year)

And there is no 0 month of the year or 0 day of the month. (Which may be the cause of your problem)

Answer 2

I stumbled across this attempting to solve the same issue. The installation I am working with uses JBOSS and Hibernate, so I had to do this a different way. For the basic case, you should be able to add zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull to your connection URI as per this configuration properties page.

I found other suggestions across the land referring to putting that parameter in your hibernate config:

In hibernate.cfg.xml:

<property name="hibernate.connection.zeroDateTimeBehavior">convertToNull</property>

In hibernate.properties:

hibernate.connection.zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull

But I had to put it in my mysql-ds.xml file for JBOSS as:

<connection-property name="zeroDateTimeBehavior">convertToNull</connection-property>

Hope this helps someone. :)

Answer 3

DATE_FORMAT(column name, '%Y-%m-%d %T') as dtime

Use this to avoid the error. It return the date in string format and then you can get it as a string.

resultset.getString("dtime");

This actually does NOT work. Even though you call getString. Internally mysql still tries to convert it to date first.

at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.getDateFromString(ResultSetImpl.java:2270)

~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.getStringInternal(ResultSetImpl.java:5743)

~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.getString(ResultSetImpl.java:5576)

~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar:na]

Answer 4

If, after adding lines:

<property
name="hibernate.connection.zeroDateTimeBehavior">convertToNull</property>

hibernate.connection.zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull

<connection-property
name="zeroDateTimeBehavior">convertToNull</connection-property>

continues to be an error:

Illegal DATETIME, DATE, or TIMESTAMP values are converted to the “zero” value of the appropriate type ('0000-00-00 00:00:00' or '0000-00-00').

find lines:

1) resultSet.getTime("time"); // time = 00:00:00
2) resultSet.getTimestamp("timestamp"); // timestamp = 00000000000000
3) resultSet.getDate("date"); // date = 0000-00-00 00:00:00

replace with the following lines, respectively:

1) Time.valueOf(resultSet.getString("time"));
2) Timestamp.valueOf(resultSet.getString("timestamp"));
3) Date.valueOf(resultSet.getString("date"));