java.lang.String cannot be cast to com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.record.OIdentifiable

Question

I'm getting the following exception when attempting to save a simple POJO with a map field.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.record.OIdentifiable

Here's my code:

package com.example.test;

import com.orientechnologies.orient.client.remote.OServerAdmin;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.document.ODatabaseDocumentTx;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.object.db.OObjectDatabaseTx;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class Main {

    static class Entity {

        private Map map;

        public Entity() {
        }

        public Entity(Map map) {
            this.map = map;
        }

        public Map getMap() {
            return map;
        }

        public void setMap(Map map) {
            this.map = map;
        }
    }

    private static void doIt() {
        String dbUser = "root";
        String dbPass = "root";
        String dbUrl = "remote:localhost:2424/sandbox";
        try {
            OServerAdmin serverAdmin = new OServerAdmin(dbUrl);
            serverAdmin.connect(dbUser, dbPass);
            if (serverAdmin.existsDatabase("plocal")) {
                serverAdmin.dropDatabase("plocal");
            }
            serverAdmin.createDatabase("document", "plocal");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
        ODatabaseDocumentTx databaseDocumentTx = new ODatabaseDocumentTx(dbUrl);
        databaseDocumentTx.open(dbUser, dbPass);

        OObjectDatabaseTx objectDatabaseTx = new OObjectDatabaseTx(databaseDocumentTx);
        objectDatabaseTx.getEntityManager().registerEntityClass(Entity.class);

        Map map = new HashMap();
        map.put("a", "a");
        Entity entity = objectDatabaseTx.save(new Entity(map)); //<-- EXCEPTION THROWN HERE!!!
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        doIt();
    }

}

Full stack trace:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.record.OIdentifiable
        at com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.record.ORecordLazyMap.put(ORecordLazyMap.java:41)
        at com.orientechnologies.orient.object.enhancement.OObjectEntitySerializer.multiValueToStream(OObjectEntitySerializer.java:1398)
        at com.orientechnologies.orient.object.enhancement.OObjectEntitySerializer.typeToStream(OObjectEntitySerializer.java:805)
        at com.orientechnologies.orient.object.enhancement.OObjectEntitySerializer.toStream(OObjectEntitySerializer.java:1216)
        at com.orientechnologies.orient.object.enhancement.OObjectEntitySerializer.serializeObject(OObjectEntitySerializer.java:144)
        at com.orientechnologies.orient.object.db.OObjectDatabaseTx.save(OObjectDatabaseTx.java:454)
        at com.orientechnologies.orient.object.db.OObjectDatabaseTx.save(OObjectDatabaseTx.java:399)
        at com.example.test.Main.doIt(Main.java:56)
        at com.example.test.Main.main(Main.java:60)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:147)

Any guidance as to what is going on would greatly be appreciated!

Answer 1

After some digging around I'm going to answer my own question. I can make my code work by explicitly declaring the Entity.map field as OType.EMBEDDEDMAP. See below:

        ...
        objectDatabaseTx.getEntityManager().registerEntityClass(Entity.class);
        OClass oClass = objectDatabaseTx.getMetadata().getSchema().getClass(Entity.class);
        oClass.createProperty("map", OType.EMBEDDEDMAP);
        ...

However, I ultimately need my map to contain any value (ie: Map<String, Object>). But I can't because there's an open bug for that ...

https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/issues/3063

So that's it folks...