Easy way to make strings always uppercase?

dlaunen · **Joined:** Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:39 pm **Posts:** 18

My customer would like to store all strings in uppercase, of course I can do this from the UI and/or BO tier, but is there a way in hibernate to parse string automatically to uppercase? Similar to that of the SQL formula that you can use to compute dynamic field values.

TIA

curio · **Joined:** Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:45 am **Posts:** 263

you could implement your own UserType ...

gtx
curio

MjH · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:12 pm

curio wrote:

you could implement your own UserType ...

I've wondered about something similar, and haven't used Hibernate enough to be sure: Is there any reason you couldn't just do a .toUpperCase in the set* method(s) of the class being persisted?

i.e.

Code:

public void setProperty (String property) {
  this.property = property.toUpperCase();
}

david · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:43 pm

No reason why not - also take you no time just to try it.

curio · **Joined:** Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:45 am **Posts:** 263

sure you can just use "toUpperCase" ... that depends on what are your needs ... if your customer wants the Strings persisted in upperCase but displayed for example in lowerCase then your approach won't do it ...
but, if that isn't the case ....

like david said ... give it a try ...

gtx
curio