NUMERIC vs. NUMBER type conversion

General Discussion
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Hi,

 

I see that some work was done recently for handling NUMERIC vs NUMBER for some other databases…

 http://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-879
http://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-866
http://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-843
http://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-863
http://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-984

 

I have upgraded to use v.2.0.2 of liquibase,

However generateChangelog is still using ‘NUMBER’ for Sybase instead of ‘NUMERIC’

 

CORE-843 mentions a possible workaround of creating a subclass for *TypeConverter in subpackage of liquibase.ext.

But I’m pretty new to liquibase so not sure how I might do that. 

Do I need to do it in source and recompile? 

or can I add something externally and have it picked up at runtime?

 

I see the converters in

liquibase/database/typeconversion/core but nothing for ‘liquibase.ext’ as mentioned above.

 

-Chad

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FYI:

I created http://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-1031 for NUMERIC conversion in Sybase

 

However I still have the question above on how/if something can be done externally.

 

Thanks,

-Chad

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To create an extension, you need to make a java class in a liquibase.ext package. There are no .ext classes in the main liquibase codebase because there are no extensions in there. See liquibase.org/extensions for more info on the extension system.


You don’t need the liquibase source to build an extension, just the liquibase jar in your classpath when creating your extension class.


I committed your change to 2.0.3. Sorry for missing it in 2.0.2, I don’t have a great sybase instance to test against