[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-6165) HqlLexer can cause ClassNotFound in OSGi environment

HqlLexer can cause ClassNotFound in OSGi environment ---------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6165 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6165 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Patch Components: core Affects Versions: 3.3.2, 3.5.0.Beta-1, 3.5.0-Beta-2, 3.5.0-Beta-3, 3.5.0-Beta-4, 3.5.0-CR-1, 3.5.0-CR-2, 3.5.0-Final, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.6.0.Beta1, 3.6.0.Beta2, 3.5.5, 3.6.0.Beta3, 3.6.0.Beta4, 3.5.6, 3.6.0.CR1, 3.6.0.CR2, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2 Environment: At least from 3.3.2 on, and at least on Postgres and Derby Reporter: Jonathan Calvert Priority: Minor Attachments: hqllexer.patch org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlLexer can cause a ClassNotFound exception in an OSGi environment with a stacktrace like {code} org.hibernate.QueryException: ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlToken [hql query here] at org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlLexer.panic(HqlLexer.java:80) at antlr.CharScanner.setTokenObjectClass(CharScanner.java:338) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlLexer.setTokenObjectClass(HqlLexer.java:54) ... {code} The HqlLexer class has antlr.CharScanner as a superclass, as evidenced by the stacktrace. The contents of the method are: {code} public void setTokenObjectClass(String cl) { // Ignore the token class name parameter, and use a specific token class. super.setTokenObjectClass( HqlToken.class.getName() ); } {code} It passes the name of the HqlToken class as a string to CharScanner, which then ultimately attempts to find HqlToken via antlr.Utils. The tokenObjectClass is a protected field. The code can be simplified by simply setting the field directly to HqlToken.class which is obviously already available to the HqlLexer class. The reason this causes the exception in an OSGi environment is that the context class loader available to ANTLR is limited to what is explicitly declared in the ANTLR bundle. Since ANTLR cannot (and should not) have to know about all the classes that it may be passed, it does not declare an import on the org.hibernate.hql.ast package. By passing the class directly, the lookup is avoided from within the ANTLR package. {code} public void setTokenObjectClass(String cl) { // Ignore the token class name parameter, and use a specific token class. tokenObjectClass = HqlToken.class; } {code}