[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (ANN-717) org.hibernate.type.EnumType throws exceptions when trying to map unknown values to an Enum

org.hibernate.type.EnumType throws exceptions when trying to map unknown values to an Enum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: ANN-717 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-717 Project: Hibernate Annotations Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.3.1.GA Environment: All version Reporter: Alvin When EnumType encounters a value in the database which is not mapped to a specific enum the class throws an exception. I know this is how it was made to work but it may be better instead to do a graceful error - i.e. return null instead of throwing an exception. This case arises from the following scenario - We are doing staged releases to our production environment and at points we will have two different versions of our code running. If we add new Enum values into a version - the old version has problems running because it starts getting exceptions with unknown values when it is trying to map these enums. I have discussed this briefly in the hibernate forum with not too many replies - http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=984976 .