handling DATETIME values 0000-00-00 00:00:00 in JDBC

Question

I get an exception (see below) if I try to do

resultset.getString(\"add_date\");

for a JDBC connection to a MySQL database containing a DA

Answer 1

I stumbled across this attempting to solve the same issue. The installation I am working with uses JBOSS and Hibernate, so I had to do this a different way. For the basic case, you should be able to add zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull to your connection URI as per this configuration properties page.

I found other suggestions across the land referring to putting that parameter in your hibernate config:

In hibernate.cfg.xml:

convertToNull

In hibernate.properties:

hibernate.connection.zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull

But I had to put it in my mysql-ds.xml file for JBOSS as:

convertToNull

Hope this helps someone. :)