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                                            Affects Versions:
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                                             DemoByteArrayPK.tar 
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                                             core 
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                                             09/Feb/2015 05:13 AM 
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                                             Hibernate ORM 4.3.X, all databases 
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                                             NPE core 
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Updating or removing entities with byte array as primary key causes <b>NullPointerException</b>. Tested on Derby and Oracle database using Java 1.8.0_31 and 1.7.0_71 version. <b>All ORM Hibernte 4.3 versions are affected</b>. On 4.2.X everything works as expected.</p> 
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<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">import</span> java.io.Serializable;
<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">import</span> javax.persistence.Column;
<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">import</span> javax.persistence.Entity;
<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">import</span> javax.persistence.Id;

@Entity
<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> class DemoEntity <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">implements</span> Serializable {

  @Id
  @Column
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">byte</span>[] id;

  @Column
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> name;

  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> DemoEntity() {

  }

  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> void setId(<span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">byte</span>[] id) {
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span>.id = id;
  }

  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">byte</span>[] getId() {
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> id;
  }

  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> void setName(<span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> data) {
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span>.name = data;
  }

  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> getName() {
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> name;
  }

}
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Following unit tests demonstrates both issues. At the beginning of each test there are 3 records in database.</p> 
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  /**
   * Tries to remove two records from database.
   *
   * Second remove operation <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">throws</span> NPE. It is marked as expected <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">for</span>
   * demonstration purpose.
   */
  @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> void testMultipleDeletionsNPE() {
    EntityManager em = <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">null</span>;

    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">try</span> {
      em = prepareEntityManager();
      Query q = em.createQuery(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;SELECT s FROM DemoEntity s&quot;</span>, DemoEntity.class);
      List&lt;DemoEntity&gt; results = q.getResultList();

      em.remove(results.get(0));
      em.remove(results.get(1)); <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// NPE
</span>
      em.getTransaction().commit();

      assertEquals(1, q.getResultList().size());
    } <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">finally</span> {
      closeEntityManager(em);
    }
  }
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                                                    <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">java.lang.NullPointerException<br /> at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.compare(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:221)<br /> at org.hibernate.action.internal.EntityAction.compareTo(EntityAction.java:171)<br /> at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ExecutableList.add(ExecutableList.java:222)<br /> at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue.addAction(ActionQueue.java:219)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultDeleteEventListener.deleteEntity(DefaultDeleteEventListener.java:299)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultDeleteEventListener.onDelete(DefaultDeleteEventListener.java:160)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultDeleteEventListener.onDelete(DefaultDeleteEventListener.java:73)<br /> at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.fireDelete(SessionImpl.java:916)<br /> at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.delete(SessionImpl.java:892)<br /> at org.hibernate.jpa.spi.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.remove(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:1214)<br /> at ByteArrayPKTest.testMultipleDeletionsBugged(ByteArrayPKTest.java:103)<br /> ...</p> 
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  /**
   * Tries to update two records in database.
   *
   * Throws RollbackException caused by NPE during commit. It is marked as expected <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">for</span>
   * demonstration purpose.
   */
  @Test(expected = RollbackException.class)
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> void testMultipleUpdatesNPE() {
    EntityManager em = <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">null</span>;

    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">try</span> {
      em = prepareEntityManager();
      Query q = em.createQuery(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;select s from DemoEntity s&quot;</span>, DemoEntity.class);
      List&lt;DemoEntity&gt; results = q.getResultList();

      results.get(0).setName(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 0&quot;</span>);
      results.get(1).setName(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 1&quot;</span>);

      em.getTransaction().commit(); <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// RollbackException caused by NPE
</span>
      List&lt;DemoEntity&gt; check = q.getResultList();
      assertEquals(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 0&quot;</span>, check.get(0).getName());
      assertEquals(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 1&quot;</span>, check.get(1).getName());
    } <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">finally</span> {
      closeEntityManager(em);
    }
  }
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                                                    <b>Stack Trace when updating</b>
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                                                    <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">javax.persistence.RollbackException: Error while committing the transaction<br /> at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.TransactionImpl.commit(TransactionImpl.java:94)<br /> at ByteArrayPKTest.testMultipleUpdatesBugged(ByteArrayPKTest.java:152)<br /> ...<br /> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException<br /> at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.compare(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:221)<br /> at org.hibernate.action.internal.EntityAction.compareTo(EntityAction.java:171)<br /> at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ExecutableList.add(ExecutableList.java:222)<br /> at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue.addAction(ActionQueue.java:237)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.scheduleUpdate(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:313)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.onFlushEntity(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:160)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEntities(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:231)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:102)<br /> at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:55)<br /> at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1218)<br /> at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:421)<br /> at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jdbc.JdbcTransaction.beforeTransactionCommit(JdbcTransaction.java:101)<br /> at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.spi.AbstractTransactionImpl.commit(AbstractTransactionImpl.java:177)<br /> at org.hibernate.jpa.internal.TransactionImpl.commit(TransactionImpl.java:77)</p> 
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                                            <h2 style="margin: 10px 0 0 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.500; margin: 40px 0 0 0"><a name="Problemreason" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none"></a>Problem reason</h2> 
                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">In delete/update process <em>org.hibernate.engine.spi.ExecutableList</em> collection is used. This is a sorted list and each add operation compares adding object to last added. In this case comparison is performed on <em>EntityAction</em> objects.</p> 
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                                                    <b>org/hibernate/action/internal/EntityAction.java</b>
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...
        @Override
        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">int</span> compareTo(<span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">Object</span> other) {
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">final</span> EntityAction action = (EntityAction) other;
                <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">//sort first by entity name
</span>                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">final</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">int</span> roleComparison = entityName.compareTo( action.entityName );
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">if</span> ( roleComparison != 0 ) {
                        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> roleComparison;
                }
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">else</span> {
                        <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">//then by id
</span>                        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> persister.getIdentifierType().compare( id, action.id );
                }
        }
...
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Accordingly, method <em>EntityAction.compareTo</em> compares wrapped primary keys of entities. Byte array is wrapped by <em>PrimitiveByteArrayTypeDescriptor</em>.<br /> This class calls its super constructor (<em>AbstractTypeDescriptor</em>) with <b>byte[].class</b> as argument.</p> 
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                                                    <b>org/hibernate/type/descriptor/java/PrimitiveByteArrayTypeDescriptor.java</b>
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...
        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> PrimitiveByteArrayTypeDescriptor() {
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">super</span>( <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">byte</span>[].class, ArrayMutabilityPlan.INSTANCE );
        }
...
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0"><em>AbstractTypeDescriptor</em> constructor set <b>comparator</b> only if given class implements <em>Comparator</em> interface:</p> 
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                                                    <b>org/hibernate/type/descriptor/java/AbstractTypeDescriptor.java</b>
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...
        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">protected</span> AbstractTypeDescriptor(<span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">Class</span>&lt;T&gt; type, MutabilityPlan&lt;T&gt; mutabilityPlan) {
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span>.type = type;
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span>.mutabilityPlan = mutabilityPlan;
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span>.comparator = Comparable.class.isAssignableFrom( type )
                                ? (Comparator&lt;T&gt;) ComparableComparator.INSTANCE
                                : <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">null</span>;
        }
...
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Byte array of course doesn't implement <em>Comparator</em> interface and during comparison of <em>PrimitiveByteArrayTypeDescriptor</em> objects their comparators are <b>null</b>.</p> 
                                            <h2 style="margin: 10px 0 0 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.500; margin: 40px 0 0 0"><a name="Avoidingproblem" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none"></a>Avoiding problem</h2> 
                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Issues in both cases can be avoided by explicitly calling <b>em.flush()</b> after each update/delete operation. Flush clears <em>ExecutableList</em> collections and <b>NPE</b> is not thrown. Although this does not solve the problem.</p> 
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                                                    <b>Avoiding NPE during delete</b>
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  /**
   * Removes two records from database.
   *
   * Flush operation placed between removing each entity prevent NPE throwing.
   */
  @Test
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> void testMultipleDeletions() {
    EntityManager em = <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">null</span>;

    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">try</span> {
      em = prepareEntityManager();

      Query q = em.createQuery(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;select s from DemoEntity s&quot;</span>, DemoEntity.class);
      List&lt;DemoEntity&gt; results = q.getResultList();

      em.remove(results.get(0));
      em.flush(); <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// clear deletions queue - prevent throwing NPE
</span>      em.remove(results.get(1));

      em.getTransaction().commit(); <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">//implicitly calls flush
</span>
      assertEquals(1, q.getResultList().size());
    } <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">finally</span> {
      closeEntityManager(em);
    }
  }
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                                                    <b>Avoiding NPE during update</b>
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  /**
   * Updates two records in database.
   *
   * Flush operation placed between changing each entity prevents NPE throwing.
   */
  @Test
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> void testMultipleUpdates() {
    EntityManager em = <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">null</span>;

    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">try</span> {
      em = prepareEntityManager();
      Query q = em.createQuery(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;select s from DemoEntity s&quot;</span>, DemoEntity.class);
      List&lt;DemoEntity&gt; results = q.getResultList();

      results.get(0).setName(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 0&quot;</span>);
      em.flush();
      results.get(1).setName(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 1&quot;</span>);

      em.getTransaction().commit(); <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">//implicitly calls flush
</span>
      List&lt;DemoEntity&gt; check = q.getResultList();
      assertEquals(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 0&quot;</span>, check.get(0).getName());
      assertEquals(<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Different 1&quot;</span>, check.get(1).getName());
    } <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">finally</span> {
      closeEntityManager(em);
    }
  }
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                                            <h2 style="margin: 10px 0 0 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.500; margin: 40px 0 0 0"><a name="Issuereproduction" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none"></a>Issue reproduction</h2> 
                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">In order to reproduce this problem (on 4.3.X version), demonstration project has been attached.</p> 
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                                                    <b>Test cases can be run with command</b>
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                                                    <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">mvn test</p> 
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">All tests will be successful <b>because undesirable exceptions thrown in <em>testMultipleDeletionsNPE</em> and <em>testMultipleUpdatesNPE</em> are annotated as expected</b> but problem still exists.</p> 
                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">In order to verify the proper behavior of version <em>4.2.X</em> the <b>hibernate-entitymanager</b> version and the <b>jpa provider</b> should be changed e.g:</p> 
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                                                    <b>persistence.xml</b>
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<span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;persistence  ...&gt;</span>
  <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;persistence-unit name=<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;DEMO&quot;</span> transaction-type=<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;RESOURCE_LOCAL&quot;</span>&gt;</span>
        <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;provider&gt;</span>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence<span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;/provider&gt;</span>
        ...
  <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;/persistence-unit&gt;</span>
<span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;/persistence&gt;</span>
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                                                    <b>pom.xml</b>
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...
    <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;dependency&gt;</span>
      <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>org.hibernate<span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
      <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>hibernate-entitymanager<span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
      <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;version&gt;</span>4.2.17.Final<span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
    <span class="code-tag" style="color: #000091">&lt;dependency&gt;</span>
...
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">In this case exceptions in <em>testMultipleDeletionsNPE</em> and <em>testMultipleUpdatesNPE</em> will not be thrown and those tests will fail.</p> 
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