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

DATE_FORMAT(column name, '%Y-%m-%d %T') as dtime

Use this to avoid the error. It return the date in string format and then you can get it as a string.

resultset.getString("dtime");

This actually does NOT work. Even though you call getString. Internally mysql still tries to convert it to date first.

at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.getDateFromString(ResultSetImpl.java:2270)

~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.getStringInternal(ResultSetImpl.java:5743)

~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.getString(ResultSetImpl.java:5576)

~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar:na]