[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (ANN-723) Impossible to bind a SortedMap collection

Impossible to bind a SortedMap collection ----------------------------------------- Key: ANN-723 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-723 Project: Hibernate Annotations Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.3.0.ga Environment: hibernate: 3.2.5.ga hibernate-annotations: 3.3.0.ga database: HSQL 1.8.0.7 Reporter: Alexandre Dutra Assignee: Hardy Ferentschik Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.3.2, 3.4.0.CR2 Original Estimate: 2 days Remaining Estimate: 2 days See http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=976437 I have the following collection declared in a persistent class: @CollectionOfElements @Sort(type = SortType.NATURAL) @JoinTable(name = "delivery_option_price", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "delivery_option_id")) private SortedMap<Float, MonetaryAmount> prices = new TreeMap<Float, MonetaryAmount>(); Hibernate fails to bind it to a database table. The stack trace is: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.MapBinder.bindKeyFromAssociationTable(MapBinder.java:129) at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.MapBinder.access$000(MapBinder.java:53) at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.MapBinder$1.secondPass(MapBinder.java:83) at org.hibernate.cfg.CollectionSecondPass.doSecondPass(CollectionSecondPass.java:43) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1130) at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.secondPassCompile(AnnotationConfiguration.java:316) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1286) at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:915) ... A workaround to this is to explicitly specify the map key class by adding a org.hibernate.annotations.MapKey annotation: @org.hibernate.annotations.MapKey(targetElement = Float.class, columns = @Column(name = "WEIGHT")) Browsing the source code, I realized that the NullPointerException is being raised beacause the following method returns null in org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.java.JavaXCollectionType: public XClass getMapKey() { return new TypeSwitch<XClass>() { @Override public XClass caseParameterizedType(ParameterizedType parameterizedType) { if ( getCollectionClass().isAssignableFrom( Map.class ) ) { return toXClass( parameterizedType.getActualTypeArguments()[0] ); } return null; } }.doSwitch( approximate() ); } More specifically, the following expression seems misconstructed: getCollectionClass().isAssignableFrom( Map.class ) The correct expression would be: Map.class.isAssignableFrom( getCollectionClass() ) At least if, as I understand it, the goal is to determine whether the collection class is or is not a Map in anyone one of its implementations. The same applies to the getElementClass() method, in the same class. If my analyzis is correct, the bug might be very easy to fix, but maybe I'm underestimating its impacts.