Oracle inserting row from xls into database gives ORA-12899: value too large for column "AFSWEB"."BD_VEHICLES_TEMP_1"."DIVI"

Question

I have a table

create table BD_VEHICLES_TEMP_1
(
  CONTRACT_NO           VARCHAR2(16) not null,
  ELIMINATED_FLG        VARCHAR2(1),
  ELIMINATION_CODE      VARCHAR2(2),
  PUBLISHED             VARCHAR2(1),
  BD_GRP_ID             VARCHAR2(10),
  EMD                   NUMBER(8),
  VALUATION_PRICE       NUMBER(8),
  DIVI                  VARCHAR2(2),
)

I have made a corresponding bean

and setting the value of its attribute as

bean.setDIVI(row.getCell(27).getNumericCellValue()+"");

however while inserting the bean into database i get the following error

ORA-12899: value too large for column "AFSWEB"."BD_VEHICLES_TEMP_1"."DIVI" (actual: 4, maximum: 2)

I know that this has something to do with size of column. Data in excel sheet for DIVI is 11,13,45,67.. and so on all 2 digits.

What can be the reason ? What is the solution ?

Thanks in advance !

Answer 1

From the Cell.getNumericCell() javadocs you'll see that it returns a double. You appear to be trying to use a rather odd technique to turn that into a string, and your chosen way of double+"" is very likely to produce long strings, as a double will often have lots of digits after the decimal point!

From your table definition:

DIVI                  VARCHAR2(2),

I gather that you're trying to turn the numeric cell into a two digit string. I'm not sure why you want to do that, rather than storing an INTEGER in your database, but I'm hoping you have a good reason.... Assuming so, you should do something with DataFormatter like

DataFormatter fmt = new DataFormatter();
String divi = fmt.formatCellValue(row.getCell(27).getNumericCellValue());
if (divi.length() > 2) {
   throw new IllegalStateException("Row should contain a 2 digit number, found " + divi);
}
bean.setDIVI(divi);