Bug #1130 Clob truncate fails
Submitted: 25 Aug 2003 3:00 Modified: 25 Aug 2003 7:42
Reporter: Roland Littwin Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:Connector / J Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:3.0.8 OS:Any (All)
Assigned to: Mark Matthews CPU Architecture:Any

[25 Aug 2003 3:00] Roland Littwin 
Description:
JDBC Documentation said
public void truncate(long len)
              throws SQLExceptionTruncates the CLOB value that this Clob designates to have a length of len characters.

but your implementation in file com/mysql/jdbc/Clob.java sets the Clob to
the tailing string after the length-Position. So truncating a clob to 0 bytes
requires
clob.truncate(clob.length()) and not clob.truncate(0). If im wrong, i'm sorry
but I think I'm right.

How to repeat:
Call
clob.truncate(0) to a nonemty field and store result. It will be unchanged.

Suggested fix:
Your version:
   public void truncate(long length) throws SQLException {
        this.charData = this.charData.substring((int) length);
    }

Corrected version:
    public void truncate(long length) throws SQLException {
        this.charData = this.charData.substring(0,(int) length);
    }
[25 Aug 2003 7:42] Mark Matthews 
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