Birthday as Integer

[flav]

In all packets where birthday is used it's sent to the server as Integer, so why not reading it like that from database instead of parsing it as Calendar?

private int birthday;

try {
	PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT `id`, `password`, `birthday` + 0 AS `bday` FROM `accounts` WHERE `name` = ?");
	ps.setString(1, name);
	ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();

	if (rs.next()) {
		id = rs.getInt("id");
		birthday = rs.getInt("bday");
		...

public boolean validateBirthday(int birthday) {
	return birthday == this.birthday;
}

Nothing special, should be clear what to do.

 

[eternalms]

Not quite entirely sure what it does, but it sounds like instead of reading as 1992-05-17 it will read as 19920517?

 

[kevintjuh93]

Not to be an butt, but in what way could this be useful?

So it seems you like calling the Calendar everytime. So you do not check your cell phone for the current date, but you walk to the nearest calendar? lolwut

 

[flav]

Not quite entirely sure what it does, but it sounds like instead of reading as 1992-05-17 it will read as 19920517?

Exactly, the +0 leaves out the - so you can read it as Integer from database and don't have to create a new Calendar object for it. This also makes it easier to validate the birthday, considering that the validate function on most sources fails so much that it returns false sometimes (not always) when the birthday is correct.

 

[Diamondo25]

Good idea, using less resources for such simple things

 

[KidFlow]

Nice to see you back

 

[Soul]

Nice to see you back

He was never gone?