Description Vikram Bhatia 2011-02-03 01:39:42 EST

Build Identifier: 2.0.2

Entity A having one of the field as char(1). Set eclipselink.weaving property to true in persistence.xml.

Fetch a row from database using em.find(TestEntity.class, 1L) with char value in database as ' ' (space). It will throw NullPointerException in _persistence_set() method.

 java.lang.NullPointerException
                 at test.TestEntity._persistence_set(Unknown Source)
                 at
  org.eclipse.persistence.internal.descriptors.PersistenceObjectAttributeAccess
  or.setAttributeValueInObject(PersistenceObjectAttributeAccessor.java:46)
                 at
  org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.DatabaseMapping.setAttributeValueInObject(Da
  tabaseMapping.java:1368)
                 at
  org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.DatabaseMapping.readFromRowIntoObject(Databa
  seMapping.java:1259)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unzip enclosed testcase.zip
2. Load JPA project in eclipse.
3. Change persistence.xml to change database details.
4. Change variables in project classpath.e.g., eclipselink.jar location, javax.persistence jar location, junit jar and driver jar.
5. Run CreateTestData class to create the table and insert data.
6. Run TestCase junit test with weaving enabled by adding following in VM arguments to notice NPE.
-javaagent:D:/EclipseLink/main/trunk/eclipselink.jar -Declipselink.weaving.output.path=D:\tmp-weaving -Declipselink.weaving.overwrite.existing=true