Can't make String properties with arbitrary length
Reported by Paul Sadauskas (Rando) | May 14th, 2009 @ 04:51 PM
Setting a property with type String forces a limit
on the length. It defaults to 50, and there is no way to un-set
it.
property :name, String, :length => nil
# +options[:length]+ should be Range or Integer, but was NilClass (ArgumentError)
property :name, String, :length => n
# options[:length]+ should be Range or Integer, but was Float (ArgumentError)
Yes, I could used Text, :lazy => false, but
thats convoluted. Postgres has no limit on the length of VARCHAR
columns, and MySQL has a 64K limit, but requires that a limit be
specified. SQLite3 has no limit, even if one is specified. Several
other adapters have no limit on a string-ish attribute.
My suggestion would be to remove the default 50-char limit from String properties, and have no default limit. The MySQL adapter can then pick a special default, since it is the only one that needs it.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Paul Sadauskas (Rando) May 23rd, 2009 @ 12:55 AM
- Assigned user set to “Paul Sadauskas (Rando)”
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Dan Kubb (dkubb) October 6th, 2009 @ 01:09 PM
- Tag changed from “adapters, property, types” to “adapters, property, suggestion, types”
- State changed from “unconfirmed” to “suggestion”
- Assigned user cleared.
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URI type defaults to VARCHAR(50), isn't that too conservative?
Duplicate of #850