H2 UUID type

[dodtsair]

I am a little confused.  When I was using ibatis to generate pojos based on a h2 schema that included UUIDs then the pojos themselves did not use the UUID type.

Now that I am revisiting h2 I am running some plain JDBC code, and the class name h2 uses (getColumnClassName) for the UUID column type is [B.  Which basically means byte[].  Why does h2 give a byte[] as the class name for a UUID column instead of a UUID. 

I read the documentation at
http://www.h2database.com/html/datatypes.html#uuid_type
Which says that the getObject returns type UUID, so just not able to understand the connection between getColumnClassName and getObject(n).getClass()

[Noel Grandin]

getColumnType() will return UUID

getColumnClassName() will return the class that is returned by
getObject(), which is indeed a byte array.

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[Mike Power]

I take it there is a reason for not normalizing the APIs that I am not
aware of.

What would it mean for the follow?
1) getColumnType returns UUID
2) getColumnClassName returns java.util.UUID
3) getObject returns instance of UUID

[Thomas Mueller]

Hi,

Unless another database supports java.util.UUID, I don't think I will
support this within H2.

By the way, do you want to create an index on the UUID? Please note
this is problematic, see
http://h2database.com/html/datatypes.html#uuid_type

Regards,
Thomas

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