GetObject(int, Map) not working with oracle JDBC

Question

I'm using Oracle and I'd like to get Date fields as Timestamps since an Oracle date column includes time. I'm trying to use getObject(int, Map) to map the types to Java objects, but it's not working. This is my code:
     public static final HashMap oracleMap = new HashMap();
     static{
          try{
               oracleMap.put( "DATE", Class.forName("java.sql.Timestamp") );
               oracleMap.put( "NUMBER", Class.forName("java.math.BigDecimal") );
               oracleMap.put( "VARCHAR2", Class.forName("java.lang.String") );
               oracleMap.put( "CLOB", Class.forName("java.sql.Clob") );
               oracleMap.put( "LONG", Class.forName("java.lang.String") );
          }catch(Exception e){
               IllegalStateException ise = new IllegalStateException("Oracle type mapping failed.");
               ise.initCause(e);
               throw ise;
     }And
                    BASE.println("rs.getClass().getName(): "+rs.getClass().getName());                                        
                    BASE.println("rs.getMetaData().getColumnTypeName(i): "+rs.getMetaData().getColumnTypeName(i));
                    if(rs.getClass().getName().startsWith("oracle")) valObj = rs.getObject(i, DOMTools.oracleMap);                    
                    else valObj = rs.getObject(i);                    
                    BASE.println("valObj.getClass().getName(): "+valObj.getClass().getName());Here's a snippet of my output that illustrates the code not working:
rs.getClass().getName(): oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleResultSetImpl
rs.getMetaData().getColumnTypeName(i): DATE
valObj.getClass().getName(): java.sql.Date
Anyone know if this is a driver issue? Anyone had luck doing this with Oracle?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, I'd like it to be java.sql.Timestamp instead of
java.sql.Date. My actual type is an oracle "DATE".
Are you saying the Map key for this would be
"TIMESTAMP" and that by default it maps to
java.sql.Date? Doesn't seem like that makes sense.I am saying that "TIMESTAMP" is not an oracle value but is instead a JDBC value. Thus it is up to to the driver, not you, to determine what oracle types map to the JDBC type.