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I need to store a dayOfTheWeek in a column of my database. Im using HSQLDB. Also, Im already using JodaTime for other types, like Timestamp.
Im thinking about encapsulate the int or string values into a class, so JodaTIme has already int values for the Constants, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc…
Is this a good or bad idea? Like if somewhat JodaTime decides to change the values for the days
Or should I store something different? Like creating my own enum…
The int values for day-of-week are defined by ISO-8601 and won’t be changing. As such, they are safe to store in a database. If you want to go further, you could create an enum/class to wrap the value, but I don’t think that is really adding value with Joda-Time (JSR-310/ThreeTen has a DayOfWeek enum).