JavaCast ignoring type attribute

[ProphecyVI]

I have a vendor Java object that returns a long representation of a timestamp. Unfortunately for me, this long has to be multiplied by 1000 before it becomes the correct timestamp. Attempting to do so throws an error in MX 7 about integers, even though I'm casting everything to longs. Is there either a way to work around this, or a different way to get a timestamp from a long?

Error thrown:

Could not convert the value 1.162484964E12 to an integer because it cannot fit inside an integer.

Code:

lngStartTime = JavaCast("long", Request.varName.getStartTime());
lngStartTime = JavaCast("long", lngStartTime * JavaCast("long", 1000)); //error thrown here
dteStartTime = CreateObject("java", "java.sql.Timestamp");
dteStartTime.init(lngStartTime);

[Stefan_K_]

JavaCast-long is buggy.
Without going into details, do the calculations on the Java-side, sorry, no better option, even if that means writing a small Java-class yourself.

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

ProphecyVI wrote:
> I have a vendor Java object that returns a long representation of a timestamp.
> Unfortunately for me, this long has to be multiplied by 1000 before it becomes

unix epoch offset, *seconds* since 1-1-1970.

> dteStartTime = CreateObject("java", "java.sql.Timestamp");
> dteStartTime.init(lngStartTime);

well if you don't care about the ms part of your date (and you really can't
since your java class is returning unix epoch):

<cfscript>
startDate=createDate(1970,1,1);
dt=dateAdd("s",unixEpoch,startDate);
</cfscript>

where unixEpoch is the value returned by your java class.

btw if you want to get the java epoch offset (ms since 1-1-1970) for a given date:

<cfscript>
t=now();
t=t.getTime();
</cfscript>

[Stefan_K_]

Thouroughly tested the JavaCast-long issue in the following article:
JavaCast : Useless long datatype

Can anyone confirm this?