[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-6880) Implementations of org.hibernate.type.Type contain references to non-serializable entities

[Steve Ebersole (JIRA)]

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Steve Ebersole commented on HHH-6880:
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are you saying that having references to non-serializable objects (comparators) is OK in a serializable class 
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The comparator associated with a sorted set is specified by the user.  The comparators implemented by Hibernate are in fact  serializable.  We cannot control what a user might hand us.  It seems reasonable that if they want to serialize Hibernate objects that hold references to their classes, that they in turn make those objects serialzable.

There will be no more 3.6 releases.  No more 3.x release at all.  Really your problem is that you say you are stuck on 3.6.  All this other discussion is moot.



> Implementations of org.hibernate.type.Type contain references to non-serializable entities
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>
>                 Key: HHH-6880
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6880
>             Project: Hibernate Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core
>    Affects Versions: 3.6.7
>         Environment: Seen this on MySQL but I believe this is environment-agnostic
>            Reporter: Mindaugas Žakšauskas
>            Assignee: Steve Ebersole
>            Priority: Critical
>              Labels: serialization
>          Time Spent: 59m
>
> This is a spin-off from
> - https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1013687&sid=e62b8ea711e4986a6ff419e3e641e2e8
> - http://stackoverflow.com/q/8404559/7345
> org.hibernate.cache.CacheKey is an object which is used for L2 cache notifications - e.g. to flush a cache on a different cluster node when a certain object has been updated.
> The problem comes from org.hibernate.cache.CacheKey carrying the type which (sometimes) happens to have a reference to objects like org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.
> This problem is actually not just theoretic but also causes real pain. First, it takes much longer to broadcast cache flush events. Secondly, I get this exception during deserialization of such a CacheKey: 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>  at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.get(ConcurrentHashMap.java:768)
>  at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory.getNamedInstance(SessionFactoryObjectFactory.java:159)
>  at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.readResolve(SessionFactoryImpl.java:753)
>  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>  at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadResolve(ObjectStreamClass.java:1061)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1762)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1947)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1871)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1753)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1947)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1871)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1753)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1947)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1871)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1753)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
>  at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readUnshared(ObjectInputStream.java:441)
>  at my.class.deserializeKey(EhcacheUtils.java:35)
> I have done a quick scan through all the types, and found these problems related to their serializability:
> 1) org.hibernate.type.CollectionType, org.hibernate.type.ComponentType and subclasses of both - they use attribute "typeScope" (of type TypeFactory.TypeScope) which is assigned in the constructor and kept in the but seems to be never used. The typeScope in turn has a reference to the SessionImpl. Can it simply be removed?
> 2) org.hibernate.type.EntityType (and its subclasses) stores typeScope and only uses it in the getter, so I guess it should be safe to remove it, too.
> 3) org.hibernate.type.SortedSetType and org.hibernate.type.SortedMapType keeps a reference to the comparator, but does not enforce its serializability. It should at least throw a runtime exception in org.hibernate.mapping.Collection::getComparator if the comparator is not serializable.

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