Loading data via XML Mapping not properly handling empty XML elements --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6018 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6018 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.6.2 Reporter: Don Smith Attachments: AFPROCESS.xml, Process.hbm.xml, ProcessImpl.java An XML data file that worked with Hibernate 3.3 now throws "org.hibernate.HibernateException: could not parse timestamp string" for an empty XML node corresponding to a timestamp column. Example Class, hbm mapping and XML data file attached. com.novell.soa.persist.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.HibernateException: could not parse timestamp string at com.novell.soa.persist.HibernateDAO.loadData(HibernateDAO.java:533) at com.novell.soa.persist.HibernateDAO.loadData(HibernateDAO.java:479) at com.novell.soa.af.impl.persist.ProcessDAOTest.setUp(ProcessDAOTest.java:92) at junit.extensions.TestDecorator.basicRun(TestDecorator.java:22) at junit.extensions.TestSetup$1.protect(TestSetup.java:19) at junit.extensions.TestSetup.run(TestSetup.java:23) at com.intellij.junit3.TestRunnerUtil$SuiteMethodWrapper.run(TestRunnerUtil.java:262) at com.intellij.junit3.JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.doRun(JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.java:109) at com.intellij.junit3.JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.java:43) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:196) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:65) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:115) Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: could not parse timestamp string at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.JdbcTimestampTypeDescriptor.fromString(JdbcTimestampTypeDescriptor.java:76) at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.JdbcTimestampTypeDescriptor.fromString(JdbcTimestampTypeDescriptor.java:42) at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.fromString(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:66) at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.fromXMLNode(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:300) at org.hibernate.property.Dom4jAccessor$ElementGetter.get(Dom4jAccessor.java:229) at org.hibernate.property.Dom4jAccessor$Dom4jGetter.getForInsert(Dom4jAccessor.java:116) at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.AbstractEntityTuplizer.getPropertyValuesToInsert(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:497) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.getPropertyValuesToInsert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:3975) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:289) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:203) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:143) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.saveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:210) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(DefaultSaveEventListener.java:56) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:195) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveEventListener.java:50) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSave(SessionImpl.java:713) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.save(SessionImpl.java:701) at com.novell.soa.persist.HibernateDAO.loadData(HibernateDAO.java:510) ... 27 more Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "" at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:337) at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.JdbcTimestampTypeDescriptor.fromString(JdbcTimestampTypeDescriptor.java:73) ... 45 more -- 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