Accessing value of a textfield mapped to an infobus column

Question

I am attempting to access the text value of a textfield mapped to an Infobus column.
In this instance, I am trying to get an account type from the appropriate textfield to pass it to a new query.
I have tried using getText - this returns a string of "oracle.sql.STRUCT@nnnn" (where nnnn is an hexidecimal bnumber)
I also tried creating a method on the textfield using code I found here to retrieve the dataItem, map it to an immediate access control and retrieve the value using getValueAsString().
This approach also returns "oracle.sql.STRUCT@nnnn" of course the numbers are different but as far as I can see, I have know way of knowing if this is the same class or not.
What I am wanting to do is this....
jpLookup.getRowSetInfo().setQueryCondition("ACCOUNTTYPENAME" = '"+tfType.getFieldContents()+"'");
jpLookup.getRowSetInfo().executeQuery();
for testing, I took out the internal single quotes so I could see what was being generated through the sql error dialog. With them in place, I simply get an empty result set since I don't have any account types of 'oracle.sql.STRUCT@nnnn'
SO, could someone point me in the right direction??

Answer 1

TextFieldControl tField = new TextFieldControl();
((ImmediateAccess)tField.getDataItem()).getValueAsString();
Linda