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Re: [eclipselink-users] UPDATE: IndirectSet cannot be cast to java.util.TreeSet (Problem isn't fixed)
Hi Michael,

thanks for reply.

Yes, that was what I am afraid of. The bigger picture is, that I would like get the newest children without any performance issues. The children are holding a date in my real case. I implemented this as usual with a TreeSet, which will sort the children's by adding a new one automatigally with a comparator.

I might fetch the childrens sorted by the database and not in my java app, so I can use lazy load or batch fetch.

Unfortunately it is not an option to sort the HashSet at the Java-side each time I retrieve the result, that would be too slow.

Actually an ORM should'nt affect the OO side. But in this case I have to design my object architecture with regard to JPA. This isn't sufficient in my eyes. If I want to use a TreeSet, I should get a TreeSet and all other Collection types.

Thanks,

Martin.




Am 02.12.2009 um 22:25 schrieb Michael Bar-sinai:

Hi Martin,
Eclipselink creates an IndirectSet to do the lazy loading - TreeSets stores everything in the memory. You can't really get around this unless you do EAGER loading, and even then you'll probably get something that not a TreeSet.
What's the bigger picture? What are you trying to achieve? You could always instantiate a TreeSet and call addAll(), but that would be manually eager loading.

Michael Bar-Sinai

P.S.
The @OrderBy annotation applies to lists: http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/api/1.1/javax/persistence/OrderBy.html

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Martin Dames <m.dames@xxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, I tried a bit and didn't get a solution:


I changed the fetch type to EAGER instead of LAZY.

Now I get another ClassCastException :
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.HashSet cannot be cast to java.util.TreeSet

The setter method from the last post (see below) will convert the passed Set into a TreeSet, so there should just be an instance of TreeSet in my children set, but EclipseLink is creating a HashSet !?!.

I tried to use OrderBy Annotation:

@OrderBy(value="firstname")
@OneToMany (mappedBy = "entity", fetch=FetchType.EAGER, cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
private Set<Child> childrens = new TreeSet<Child>();

in hope that it will return an instance of TreeSet (which is sorted at first place in ascending order), but this does not work either.

Thank you for your support!

Martin.



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Von: Martin Dames <m.dames@xxxxxx>
Datum: 2. Dezember 2009 20:08:55 MEZ
Betreff: IndirectSet cannot be cast to java.util.TreeSet

Hi all,

I've got an error when I look up my lazy loaded children of one of my pojos:

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectSet cannot be cast to java.util.TreeSet

Ok, the thing has something to do with the lazy loading technology in EclipseLink/TopLink... if i have an entity like this:

@Entity
class Entity {

@OneToMany (mappedBy = "entity", fetch=FetchType.LAZY, cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
private Set<Child> childrens = new TreeSet<Child>();

public void setChildrens(Set<Child> childrens) { this.childrens = childrens }

public Set<Child> getChildrens() { return this.childrens }

public Child getNextChild() {
return this. childrens.size() > 0 ? ((TreeSet<Child>) this. childrens).last() : null;
}
...
}

If I now find all entities of Entity and call getNextChild(), I will get the error. It seems that EclipseLink will pass a IndirectSet object into my childrens set and then I can not cast it anymore. The indirect set handles somehow the lazy load technique.... so what to do?

I tried this:
public void setChildrens(Set<Child> childrens) { this.childrens = new TreeSet<Child>(childrens); }

but this does not work either. It seems, that EclipseLink is using reflection to pass the IndiretSet into my set property.

I my assumptions are correct, what is to do if want to use lazy loading, a TreeSet (for sorting purposes--see .last() above) and the Set property of my Entity class interface should be remain java.uti.Set?

Thank you for help!

Martin.



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