[QUESTION] Same values being returned by STAsBinary and serialize

Question

My understanding is that sql server uses CLR data types for representing Spatial types internally, and the method STAsBinary would convert the object to a WKB format.

The difference between these two formats is clear when I query an actual DB:

DECLARE @g geometry;
SET @g = (geometry::STGeomFromText('LINESTRING( -122.360 47.656, -122.343 47.656)', 0))
select @g as CLR, @g.STAsBinary() as WKB

But the JDBC driver seems to return the same exact values whether I use STAsBinary() or serialize(). Is this intentional? I was under the impression that WKB formats needed to follow the protocol described here.

Relevant Issues and Pull Requests

[peterbae]

I think the STAsBinary() should return the same value as SQL Server (I thought it returned a WKB format), but from what I’m seeing, it’s currently returning the CLR format of the datatype. We will make a fix for this in the near future, so that the STAsBinary() returns the WKB format as the javadoc indicates.

[humada05]

Sounds good, thanks for the update! I’ll go ahead and create an issue for this.