[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-3009) Bug in dirty checking of Entities with char[]

Bug in dirty checking of Entities with char[] --------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3009 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3009 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.2.3 Environment: Hibernate 3.2.3 Oracle 10g Reporter: Michael Plöd Assignee: Gail Badner I guess that I found a bug in the dirty checking of properties of type char[]. Every entity containing a property of type char[] will be treated as a dirty one. The reason for this is that neither the CharacterArrayType nor the AbstractCharArrayType override the isDirty Method. This means that the isDirty method of AbstractType will be used. Unfortunately this method finally calls (through isSame, isEqual) EqualsHelper.equals(x, y) which would compare the char[] like this: public static boolean equals(Object x, Object y) { return x==y || ( x!=null && y!=null && x.equals(y) ); } This results in every char[] to be treated dirty since char[] can't implement equals(). In my opinion this behavior is wrong. I think that the AbstractCharArrayType should have an isDirty method which performs an equals check through Arrays.equals(...). If needed I can provide a test case and a bug fix for this! Cheers, Mike