Hibernate fails to determine identifier of association inside composite-element in EntityMode.DOM4J when declared with embed-xml="false" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-796 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-796 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.0.5 Environment: Hibernate 3.0.5; Windows; MySQL 4.1 Reporter: Vladimir Demochko Fix For: entity-modes Attachments: TestBug.zip Having the following mapping declaration: <class name="Parent"> <id name="id"/> <property name="label"/> <bag name="associations" table="ASSOCIATION" cascade="all"> <key column="PARENT_ID"/> <composite-element class="Association" node="associations"> <parent name="parent"/> <many-to-one name="child" class="Child" column="CHILD_ID" node="child" embed-xml="false"/> <property name="info" column="INFO" type="string"/> </composite-element> </bag> </class> <class name="Child"> <id name="id"/> <property name="info"/> </class> Hibernate fails with NullPointerException while constructing Parent/assosiations/child element (in fact while getting an identifier of a Child object) in EntityMode.DOM4J: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.hibernate.type.EntityType.getIdentifierType(EntityType.java:227) at org.hibernate.type.EntityType.setToXMLNode(EntityType.java:417) at org.hibernate.property.Dom4jAccessor$ElementSetter.set(Dom4jAccessor.java:307) at org.hibernate.tuple.AbstractComponentTuplizer.setPropertyValues(AbstractComponentTuplizer.java:80) at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.setPropertyValues(ComponentType.java:262) at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.resolve(ComponentType.java:446) at org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.nullSafeGet(ComponentType.java:182) at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.readElement(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:612) at org.hibernate.collection.PersistentElementHolder.readFrom(PersistentElementHolder.java:97) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElement(Loader.java:645) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.readCollectionElements(Loader.java:355) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRowFromResultSet(Loader.java:306) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:395) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:210) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadCollection(Loader.java:1401) at org.hibernate.loader.collection.CollectionLoader.initialize(CollectionLoader.java:107) at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.initialize(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:483) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.onInitializeCollection(DefaultInitializeCollectionEventListener.java:60) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.initializeCollection(SessionImpl.java:1422) at org.hibernate.type.CollectionType.getCollection(CollectionType.java:474) at org.hibernate.type.CollectionType.resolveKey(CollectionType.java:332) at org.hibernate.type.CollectionType.resolve(CollectionType.java:326) at org.hibernate.engine.TwoPhaseLoad.initializeEntity(TwoPhaseLoad.java:105) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.initializeEntitiesAndCollections(Loader.java:510) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:419) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:210) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadEntity(Loader.java:1312) at org.hibernate.loader.entity.EntityLoader.load(EntityLoader.java:116) at org.hibernate.loader.entity.EntityLoader.load(EntityLoader.java:101) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.BasicEntityPersister.load(BasicEntityPersister.java:2461) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultLoadEventListener.loadFromDatasource(DefaultLoadEventListener.java:350) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultLoadEventListener.doLoad(DefaultLoadEventListener.java:331) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultLoadEventListener.load(DefaultLoadEventListener.java:113) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultLoadEventListener.proxyOrLoad(DefaultLoadEventListener.java:151) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultLoadEventListener.onLoad(DefaultLoadEventListener.java:79) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.get(SessionImpl.java:617) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.get(SessionImpl.java:610) at TestBug.main(TestBug.java:21)