The Geek Blog » java http://www.artin.org/geekblog A place to write down the crap from my brain Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:45:54 +0000 en hourly 1 Hibernate 3.6.0.Final + PostgreSQL + CLOBs http://www.artin.org/geekblog/2011/01/hibernate-3-6-0-final-postgresql-clobs/ http://www.artin.org/geekblog/2011/01/hibernate-3-6-0-final-postgresql-clobs/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:44:55 +0000 Aaron http://www.artin.org/geekblog/?p=92 I recently upgraded a project I’m working on to Hibernate 3.6.0.Final from 3.5.6 and realized that one of my entities that had a CLOB (character large object) was pooping out.  I was getting an exception stack track similar to:

Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Bad value for type long : <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="productDetailLineItems"><thead><tr><td rowspan="2"><input type="hidden" name="productGroupId" id="productGroupId" value="101111"/>Item Number</td><td rowspan="2">Motor HP</td><td rowspan="2">Price</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><form method="post" id="4581000" name="4581000" action=""><td>4581000</td><td><span style="fraction"><sup>1</sup>/<sub>2</sub></span></td><td><input type="button" onclick="javascript:addToCart('4581000');" value="$prc4581000" /></td></form></tr></tbody></table>
at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.toLong(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:2690) [:]
at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.getLong(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:1995) [:]
at org.postgresql.jdbc3.Jdbc3ResultSet.getClob(Jdbc3ResultSet.java:44) [:]
at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.getClob(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:373) [:]
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedResultSet.getClob(WrappedResultSet.java:516) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.ClobTypeDescriptor$2.doExtract(ClobTypeDescriptor.java:70) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.BasicExtractor.extract(BasicExtractor.java:64) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeGet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:253) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeGet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:249) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeGet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:229) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.hydrate(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:330) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.hydrate(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2265) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadFromResultSet(Loader.java:1527) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.instanceNotYetLoaded(Loader.java:1455) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRow(Loader.java:1355) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRowFromResultSet(Loader.java:611) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:829) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:274) [:3.6.0.Final]
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadEntity(Loader.java:2037) [:3.6.0.Final]
... 167 more

I do local development on my MacBook Pro with PostgreSQL 9.0.2 and will point my machine at the client’s DB2 database once in a while for pushes to their development system.  When I point the system at their DB dev database, everything works fine.  Pointing back at my PostgreSQL, the entity craps out.  I tried going back to the old 8.0 driver like some people online suggested with no luck.  I hadn’t tried using this entity since I upgraded to Hibernate 3.6 because I also have been moving from OpenEJB to JBoss 6 so it could have been that as well.

Ultimately I found a simple solution.  PostgreSQL apparently doesn’t play well with Hibernate 3.6 and requires a specific Hibernate annotation on your entity (I’m using JPA entities by the way).  On your CLOB, in addition to the @Lob, add:

@Type(type="org.hibernate.type.StringClobType")

Redeploy your application and Hibernate should behave properly.

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org.hibernate.AssertionFailure: collection [ class name here ] was not processed by flush()

I tried changing the owning side of the collection, made a join table, and nothing helped.  The error started when I added an @IndexEmbedded annotation to the collection, and I discovered I was missing the @ContainedIn annotation in the collection entity.  That didn’t fix it.  After weeks of doing little tweaks, breaking, fixing, breaking, fixing, I finally discovered the problem.  I was using an older manual for Hibernate Search (3.0 specifically) and I had the following configuration parameter pushed into my SessionFactory:

hibernate.search.worker.batch_size = 1

As of Hibernate Search 3.1, that parameter has been deprecated.  It has been replaced by a number of other settings allowing finer-grained control over your batch processing in Hibernate Search.  Eventually we’re upgrading to Hibernate Search 3.2 which handles batches altogether differently/better.  Thought I’d share, because this one had me stumped.

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  1. Reliability
  2. Durability
  3. Security
  4. Scalability

So I got a little overwhelmed with the “ity” words, but it’s very appropriate.  App Engine for Java will take the “cloud” by storm, I think.  I have been looking for a Java web host and am always discouraged by the price and the limitation on memory and disk space.  With Google, you can get a decently sized application running for free and they provide all the nuts & bolts.

Nice, Google.  Computing in the cloud isn’t such a farce as I thought it was.

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It doesn’t work.

Axis2 can’t handle SpNego which is a WCF closed protocol allowing two WCF machines to negotiate the credentials between them.  The client has spent way too much money paying me to continue to figure out a Java solution, so I wrote a .NET 3.5 C# client.  Took me literally five lines of code and it’s working.  That’s great for .NET developers but a whole lotta horse shit for the rest of the world.  I’m hoping Axis2′s Rampart module is updated to play nice with WS-SecureConversation and a .NET WCF web service.  Until then, I’m using the .NET client to download the data and I’m storing the SOAP body into a database table.  On the Java side, I’m still using JAXB2 to unmarshall the data into Java objects and process it through our existing persistence framework.

Go me!

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