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Dynamic JPA problem - empty Metamodel [message #741504]

Wed, 19 October 2011 11:40

Eclipse User

I'm a JPA newbee using EclipseLink 2.3.0.

I'm trying to use the Dynamic JPA API as described here (grr I can't post links to this forum yet). Just google "EclipseLink Dynamic Persistence" and the first 2 hits should give you pages with these titles:

EclipseLink/Development/Dynamic - Eclipsepedia
EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/Dynamic - Eclipsepedia

I can get the querying to work as in the example. However, the Metamodel returned from the EntityManagerFactory is empty. Is that a bug? If not, why is it empty?

I had expected JPADynamicHelper.addTypes to populate the EMF Metamodel.

- Jerome

Re: Dynamic JPA problem - empty Metamodel [message #742581 is a reply to message #741504]

Thu, 20 October 2011 12:13

Eclipse User

I found the problem is that when the constructor for JPADynamicHelper is called the Metamodel is created on the session. However for the dynamic case we haven't added the types yet because we need the JPADynamicHelper to be created before we call it's addTypes method. So by the time we call addTypes the empty Metamodel instance is already created so that empty one is the one returned from EntityManagerFactory.

I downloaded the latest EclipseLink code and modified EntityManagerSetupImpl.getMetamodel() to return a null Metamodel instead of an empty one. Now after JPADynamicHelper.addTypes is called when I call EntityManagerFactory.getMetamodel for the first time it creates the Metamodel with my types. Yay!

However, I was doing all of this for an odata4j application. And during my next step, which was to supply my EntityManagerFactory to odata4j's JPAProducer I discovered that odat4j doesn't like the EclipseLink dynamic classes. I get the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: org.eclipse.persistence.internal.dynamic.ValuesAccessor cannot be cast to org.eclipse.persistence.internal.descriptors.InstanceVariableAttributeAccessor
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel.AttributeImpl.getJavaMember(AttributeImpl.java:139)
at org.odata4j.producer.jpa.JPAEdmGenerator.toEdmProperty(JPAEdmGenerator.java:107)
at org.odata4j.producer.jpa.JPAEdmGenerator.getProperties(JPAEdmGenerator.java:130)
at org.odata4j.producer.jpa.JPAEdmGenerator.buildEdm(JPAEdmGenerator.java:182)
at org.odata4j.producer.jpa.JPAProducer.<init>(JPAProducer.java:85)
at edu.vt.ipg.odatahandsdynamic.App.main(App.java:59)

So I'm giving up on this Dynamic JPA business. Just thought I'd post this in case it helps someone else.

Re: Dynamic JPA problem - empty Metamodel [message #742585 is a reply to message #741504]

Thu, 20 October 2011 12:13

Eclipse User

Re: Dynamic JPA problem - empty Metamodel [message #748487 is a reply to message #742581]

Mon, 24 October 2011 14:14

Eclipse User

Please log a bug that the JPA meta-model does not work with dynamic JPA.

Re: Dynamic JPA problem - empty Metamodel [message #748489 is a reply to message #742581]

Mon, 24 October 2011 14:14

Eclipse User

Please log a bug that the JPA meta-model does not work with dynamic JPA.

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Re: Dynamic JPA problem - empty Metamodel [message #996165 is a reply to message #741504]

Tue, 01 January 2013 02:45

Eclipse User

Opened defect
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=397283

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