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Bug 358367

Summary: CloneUtility fails with some array types
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Ivan Motsch <ivan.motsch>
Component: ScoutAssignee: Project Inbox <scout.core-inbox>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: zimmermann
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Ivan Motsch CLA 2011-09-21 04:10:44 EDT
CloneUtility uses ClassLoader.loadClass to do deep cloning.
loadClass fails on some class arrays.

Solution: Instead it is recommended to use Class.forName(ClassLoader) instead.
Comment 1 Ivan Motsch CLA 2011-09-21 04:13:08 EDT
Created attachment 203732 [details]
Patch to solve issue
Comment 2 Ivan Motsch CLA 2011-09-21 04:51:19 EDT
Applied patch to fix issue
Comment 3 Matthias Zimmermann CLA 2011-10-11 02:58:55 EDT
shipped with 3.7.1