Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-openjpa-users-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 54857 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2008 18:00:42 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Dec 2008 18:00:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 76875 invoked by uid 500); 15 Dec 2008 18:00:55 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-openjpa-users-archive@openjpa.apache.org Received: (qmail 76856 invoked by uid 500); 15 Dec 2008 18:00:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@openjpa.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: users@openjpa.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list users@openjpa.apache.org Delivered-To: moderator for users@openjpa.apache.org Received: (qmail 25071 invoked by uid 99); 15 Dec 2008 09:24:56 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of peter_tan@hotmail.com designates 65.54.246.110 as permitted sender) Message-ID: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_9783885b-85ec-4ebc-aeb8-3ae72581f4c6_" X-Originating-IP: [24.130.224.140] From: Peter Tan To: Subject: Convert boolean to String type using ExternalValues Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:24:13 -0800 Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Dec 2008 09:24:13.0396 (UTC) FILETIME=[E4D3C940:01C95E96] X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --_9783885b-85ec-4ebc-aeb8-3ae72581f4c6_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi=2C I have a boolean field that I'd like to map to a string column in DB=2C so = I wrote the following annotation: @ExternalValues({"true=3DTRUE"=2C "false=3DFALSE"}) @Type(String.class) @Column(name=3D"is_verified") private boolean isVerified=3B And I got ClassCastException: Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Boolean cannot be cast t= o java.lang.String at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.ReflectingPersistenceCapable.pcProvideFie= ld(ReflectingPersistenceCapable.java:126) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.StateManagerImpl.provideField(StateManager= Impl.java:3012) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.StateManagerImpl.preFlush(StateManagerImpl= .java:2827) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.PNewState.beforeFlush(PNewState.java:39) ... 29 more Somehow the external value transfer didn't happen and the type cast failed.= Any idea? thank you -Peter =20 _________________________________________________________________ Send e-mail faster without improving your typing skills. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_spee= d_122008= --_9783885b-85ec-4ebc-aeb8-3ae72581f4c6_--