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Re: Issue 477: NPE in query runtime with JOINED inheritance on derby

From: Tom Ware <tom.ware_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:50:54 -0500

I'll take a look.

-Tom

Mitesh Meswani wrote:

>Markus might be correct. The test shows same NPE while running against
>mssql also.
>
>Tom,
>Could you please look into this.
>
>Thanks,
>Mitesh
>Markus Fuchs wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Michael,
>>
>>Is the issue that an ANSI join should be generated for JavaDB, whereas
>>toplink uses "native" syntax, e.g. (+)= , for Oracle? Than this
>>problem might occur for other vendors as well.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-- markus.
>>
>>Michael Bouschen wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>resend, because of problems with the persistence alias.
>>>
>>>===========================
>>>
>>>Hi Tom, hi Markus, hi Mitesh,
>>>
>>>I looked into issue 477 today:
>>>https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=477
>>>
>>>This is about a NPE thrown in method additionalExpressionCriteriaMap
>>>from class internal.expressions.ObjectExpression. I started with the
>>>classes attached to the issue and was able to reproduce the problem with
>>>an simplified test case. The user runs into the exception when running
>>>an JPQL query, but I see the same problem when running a TopLink query.
>>>It only happens when using the JOINED inheritance strategy and only when
>>>running on derby; I do not see the exception on Oracle. I do not know
>>>what is causing the exception, but it has to do with a different
>>>handling of the JOINED strategy. The code throwing the NPE is not called
>>>when running on Oracle.
>>>
>>>Attached you find a simple test case reproducing the problem. Please
>>>have a look at the directory src/META-INF and update
>>>persistence.xml.javadb and persistence.xml.oracle according to your
>>>environment. Calling ant javadb will prepare a javadb run, do ant oracle
>>>for Oracle. The test uses automatic table generation, so you can simply
>>>run the test by calling ant main.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Regards Michael
>>>
>>>

-- 
Tom Ware
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