HQL parsing problem with join fetching of arrays/collections of values ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-1306 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1306 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Bug Components: query-hql Affects Versions: 3.1 Environment: SQL Server Reporter: Peter Fassev Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.1.2 Attachments: testcase.zip There is a parsing exception, which is thrown, when executing the following HQL query (note that I only want to fetch an association): select o from A as o inner join fetch o.b as e The A class looks like: public class A { private int id; private String[] b; } And the mapping is: <class name="A" table="A"> <cache usage="read-write"/> <id type="int" name="id" unsaved-value="0"> <generator class="native"/> </id> <array name="b" table="AB" cascade="all"> <cache usage="read-write"/> <key column="aId"/> <index column="index_"/> <element column="b" type="java.lang.String" length="1024" not-null="true"/> </array> </class> Than following happens: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.hibernate.hql.ast.tree.SelectClause.initializeExplicitSelectClause(SelectClause.java:175) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlSqlWalker.useSelectClause(HqlSqlWalker.java:637) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlSqlWalker.processQuery(HqlSqlWalker.java:466) at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.query(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:643) at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.selectStatement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:279) at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.statement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:227) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.analyze(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:218) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:158) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:105) at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:74) at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:53) at org.hibernate.engine.query.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:71) at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.getHQLQueryPlan(AbstractSessionImpl.java:108) at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.createQuery(AbstractSessionImpl.java:88) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.createQuery(SessionImpl.java:1540) at A.main(A.java:76) Exception in thread "main" IMPORTANT: Please note, that the previous exception is a secondary exception, which is due to a small bug in the throw clause. The actual (unthrown) exception (taken from the source of SelectClause class) should be read as: ... throw new QueryException( "query specified join fetching, but the owner " + "of the fetched association was not present in the select list " + "(" + fromElement.getClassName() + " -> " + fromElement.getRealOrigin().getClassName() + ")" .... But it can not be throwed, because the fromElement is actually NULL, thus the NullPointerException. There a simple workaround for this. When the "select" clause (which is actually not needed) is removed from the query, there is no such exception: "from A as o inner join fetch o.b as e" - this query does not produce an exception. But as far as I can see from the documentation, the select clause is perfectly legal, so I suppose the problem lies somewhere in the HQL Parser. Also, I am having the same problem with list or sets of components, instead of arrays. The problem is not present in Hibernate 3.0. Please see the attached Test case.