[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HHH-6313) ClassCastException specifying type="character" in hbm.xml

ClassCastException specifying type="character" in hbm.xml --------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6313 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6313 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.6.5, 3.6.4, 3.6.0 Environment: Hibernate 3.6.5, Oracle 10g Reporter: Martin I have a class containing a field of type java.lang.Character. I map this to an Oracle char(1 byte) field using an hmb.xml file as follows: <property name="IntroducedFlag" column="INTRODUCED" type="character" /> At runtime this results in the following exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Character at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.CharacterTypeDescriptor.unwrap(CharacterTypeDescriptor.java:34) at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.VarcharTypeDescriptor$1.doBind(VarcharTypeDescriptor.java:52) at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.BasicBinder.bind(BasicBinder.java:91) at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeSet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:282) at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeSet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:277) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.bindPositionalParameters(Loader.java:1873) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.bindParameterValues(Loader.java:1844) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.prepareQueryStatement(Loader.java:1716) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:801) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:274) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2533) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache(Loader.java:2276) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2271) at org.hibernate.loader.criteria.CriteriaLoader.list(CriteriaLoader.java:119) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1716) at org.hibernate.impl.CriteriaImpl.list(CriteriaImpl.java:347) It works fine in Hibernate 3.5.6 but not in 3.6.0 onwards. Also probably related to this issue: https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1010175 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira