Changes to the JDBC standard

Question

How do you go about asking for a change?
I hate the parameter markers ? for setting PreparedStatements. When you use SQL in C you use host variables, we need a better way of tagging a parameter with a name.
Its not very flash having to set 30 parameters by index.

Answer 1

You could write a class that does that yourself.
Take a string like "insert into foo (:id, :name, :address)". Locate all :parameter strings, remember their positions, and build a new string where each :parameter is replaced by "?".
    SuperPreparedStatement stmt = connection.prepare("insert into foo (:id, :name, :address, :id + 7)");
    // For extra credit, allow multiple uses, like :id and :id+7 above
    stmt.setInt("id", 7); // look up the indexes of :id, and call underlyingPreparedStmt.setInt(1, 123) and .setInt(4, 123);Before starting to code, search the web; I wouldn't be surprised if someone hadn't already written that.
Careful about ":something" inside strings: "select 'hello:world' from dual" shouldn't be converted to 'hello:?'.