Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please give a short summary of the problem and how the feature would resolve it

I am trying to execute SQL queries with UUID objects in Java mapping to uniqueidentifier values in the database. This works, but when passing a UUID value as an input to a query using PreparedStatement#setObject() the value ends up being transferred as a string over the wire. This is inefficient both computationally (UUID#toString()) and also transfers more data over the network (36 bytes vs. 16 bytes).

Describe the preferred solution

When reading uniqueidentifier values from a ResultSet I can call ResultSet#getObject(int, Class) with the second parameter as UUID.class. This will give back the correct UUID value as expected without first converting the byte array to a String. Essentially I would want to have the same possibility when calling PreparedStatement#setObject() with a UUID object as input.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The alternative (workaround) I now use to do this is to manually convert the UUID value to a byte[] value (essentially using the same logic as in Util#asGuidByteArray(UUID)) and then give that byte[] object to PreparedStatement#setObject().

Additional context

Looking at the code I found this relevant block:

Apparently it looks like what I want is possible, but only when cryptoMeta is set. I don't understand how encryption is related to this.

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