Hi,

I am trying to do a bulk update on entities to set an attribute.  This
attribute is an enum.  If I put the enum in the update statement as in
the following:

UPDATE Shape s SET s.type = :type WHERE s.id = :id

and I set the "type" parameter with:

query.setParameter( "type", ShapeType.SQUARE );

I get the following error message:

Exception in thread "main" <0.9.7-incubating nonfatal user error>
org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: The specified
parameter of type "class test.ShapeType" is not a valid query
parameter.
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.DBDictionary.setUnknown(DBDictionary.java:1275)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLBuffer.setParameters(SQLBuffer.java:567)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLBuffer.prepareStatement(SQLBuffer.java:478)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLBuffer.prepareStatement(SQLBuffer.java:454)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLBuffer.prepareStatement(SQLBuffer.java:443)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStoreQuery.executeBulkOperation(JDBCStoreQuery.java:500)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStoreQuery.executeUpdate(JDBCStoreQuery.java:430)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.kernel.ExpressionStoreQuery$DataStoreExecutor.executeUpdate(ExpressionStoreQuery.java:690)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.update(QueryImpl.java:1036)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.execute(QueryImpl.java:843)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.updateAll(QueryImpl.java:879)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingQuery.updateAll(DelegatingQuery.java:581)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.persistence.QueryImpl.executeUpdate(QueryImpl.java:313)
        at com.softek.jpa.ShapeHelper.testShapeUpdate(ShapeHelper.java:180)
        at com.softek.jpa.ShapeHelper.run(ShapeHelper.java:78)
        at com.softek.jpa.ShapeHelper.main(ShapeHelper.java:196)

If instead I try to set the parameter with the ordinal value, it works fine.

Is it normal or is there something I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Christian

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