Hi Folks,
Right now, one defines a field as follows
{"name": "previewText", "type": ["null","string"], "default":null}
and we generate this object using the current gora-compiler-0.5-SNAPSHOT,
then if I populate this object with either Utf8 or String then I get
ClassCastException when I attempt to cast the dirty value to ByteBuffer
within PersistentBase as follows [0].
private ByteBuffer getDirtyBytes() {
return (ByteBuffer) get(0);
}
To be honest with you, the method looks rather adhoc where it is within the
class. Maybe that is only my opinion however I think that this is a bug...
or more appropriately, we could improve upon the method which would
certainly leave less owness to the developer to somehow 'know' that we are
going to cast to ByteBuffer later on.
For example I found Alfonso's issue from a while ago [1] which essentially
describes the same thing e.g. where more flexibility should be encapsulated
so that an extended variety of text-based representations can be populated
into CharSequence field values.
Does anyone have a comment on this one? I am really surprised that I've
only just expreienced this... in my case I am passing in a String with the
call to .setPreviewText(CharSequence char)... this results in
ClassCastException as described in [1].
Thanks
Lewis
[0]
https://github.com/apache/gora/blob/master/gora-core/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/persistency/impl/PersistentBase.java#L175
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-189
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*Lewis*
