ClassCastException when rendering SimpleCaseExpression ------------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-6747 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6747 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: query-criteria Affects Versions: 3.6.7 Environment: SQL Server 2005 Reporter: Anne Buit Priority: Minor Attachments: SimpleCase.zip When creating a SimpleCase using CriteriaBuilder.selectCase(Expression<?> arg0), a classcast exception will be thrown when the query is rendered to a TypedQuery. CriteriaQuery<Customer> query = builder.createQuery(Customer.class); Root<Customer> root = query.from(Customer.class); query.select(root); SimpleCase<String, Integer> orderCase = builder.selectCase(root.get(Customer_.EMail)); orderCase = orderCase.when(&quot;test(a)test.com&quot;, 1); orderCase = orderCase.when(&quot;test2(a)test.com&quot;, 2); query.orderBy(builder.asc(orderCase.otherwise(0))); em.createQuery(query); Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to org.hibernate.ejb.criteria.Renderable at org.hibernate.ejb.criteria.expression.SimpleCaseExpression.render(SimpleCaseExpression.java:146) at org.hibernate.ejb.criteria.CriteriaQueryImpl.render(CriteriaQueryImpl.java:346) at org.hibernate.ejb.criteria.CriteriaQueryCompiler.compile(CriteriaQueryCompiler.java:223) at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.createQuery(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:441) See attachement for a reproduction project. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira