I haven't had to use the Union support so that is probably why never
this seen this issue.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney
<lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
> *Lewis*
