hibernate exception Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter

Question

Having a frustrating problem with Hibernate 3.6.9. MS SQL Server 2008. Note the exception and the odd column index reference.

The HQL Query itself:

Select r from DataStoreReference r join fetch r.container c where r.hash=:hash and r.state=0

The stack trace:

2012-05-16 00:01:22,184 [BackgroundDeletionThread] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - The value supplied cannot be converted to BIGINT.  
2012-05-16 00:01:22,186 [BackgroundDeletionThread] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - The value supplied cannot be converted to BIGINT.  
2012-05-16 00:01:22,188 [BackgroundDeletionThread] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - Invalid column index 14.  
2012-05-16 00:01:22,190 [BackgroundDeletionThread] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - The value supplied cannot be converted to BIGINT.  
2012-05-16 00:01:22,193 [BackgroundDeletionThread] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - The value supplied cannot be converted to BIGINT.  
2012-05-16 00:01:22,194 [BackgroundDeletionThread] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - Invalid column index 14.  
2012-05-16 00:01:22,194 [BackgroundDeletionThread] ERROR com.flipper.utils.ServerErrorHandlerStrategy - reportError: Db :: com.flipper.datastore.workers.BackgroundDeletionThread.executeWork:87 :: EXCEPTION : com.flipper.datastore.exceptions.DBStoreException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.flipper.datastore.model.DataStoreReference.usage com.flipper.datastore.exceptions.DBStoreException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.flipper.datastore.model.DataStoreReference.usage  
    at com.flipper.datastore.impl.hib.HibernateDBStore.getAllReferences(HibernateDBStore.java:301)
    at    com.flipper.datastore.workers.BackgroundDeletionThread.processEntry(BackgroundDeletionThread.java:165)
    at com.flipper.datastore.workers.BackgroundDeletionThread.processSet(BackgroundDeletionThread.java:138)
    at com.flipper.datastore.workers.BackgroundDeletionThread.executeWork(BackgroundDeletionThread.java:84)
    at com.flipper.datastore.workers.BackgroundDeletionThread.run(BackgroundDeletionThread.java:60)
Caused by: org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: Null value was assigned to a property of primitive type setter of com.flipper.datastore.model.DataStoreReference.usage
    at org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor$BasicSetter.set(BasicPropertyAccessor.java:109)
    at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.AbstractEntityTuplizer.setPropertyValues(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:583)
    at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.setPropertyValues(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:229)
    at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.setPropertyValues(AbstractEntityPersister.java:3847)
    at org.hibernate.engine.TwoPhaseLoad.initializeEntity(TwoPhaseLoad.java:152)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.initializeEntitiesAndCollections(Loader.java:982)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:857)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:274)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2542)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache(Loader.java:2276)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2271)
    at org.hibernate.loader.hql.QueryLoader.list(QueryLoader.java:459)
    at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.list(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:365)
    at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.performList(HQLQueryPlan.java:196)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1268)
    at org.hibernate.impl.QueryImpl.list(QueryImpl.java:102)
    at com.flipper.message.dao.DataStoreDao.getAllReferencesByHash(DataStoreDao.java:136)
    at com.flipper.datastore.impl.hib.HibernateDBStore.getAllReferences(HibernateDBStore.java:298)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor556.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor$BasicSetter.set(BasicPropertyAccessor.java:66)
    ... 21 more

Now, I'd understand this from logic (and from googling) if the following were not true

a) every instantiation of DataStoreReference is shortly followed by a setUsage of System.currentTimeMillis) b) the item is marked not-null in the mapping (see below) c) the exported table shows nulls only in the f_external column. The usage column has perfectly reasonable long numbers.

The POJO:

DataStoreReference

private long id;


private String hash;    
private long date;  
private long sze;   
private long usage; 

private int state;  
private String external;
private DataStoreContainer container; 

followed by generic unmodified getter/setters.

The mapping file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="com.flippr.datastore.model">
  <class name="DataStoreReference" table="t_dsref">
    <id name="id">
      <column name="ds_reference_id"/>
      <generator class="native"/>
    </id>
    <property name="hash" not-null="true" column="f_hash" lazy="false" index="idx_hash_dsr" type="string" length="128" />
    <property name="state" not-null="true" column="f_state" lazy="false" index="idx_hash_dsr,idx_size_dsr,idx_usage_dsr" type="integer"/>
    <!--  hibernate hates the name size -->
    <property name="sze" not-null="true" column="f_size" lazy="false" index="idx_size_dsr" type="long"/>
    <property name="date" not-null="true" column="f_date" lazy="false" type="long"/>    
    <property name="usage" not-null="true" column="f_usage" lazy="false" index="idx_usage_dsr" type="long"/>
    <property name="external" not-null="false" column="f_ext" lazy="false" type="string" length="160" />

    <many-to-one name="container" class="com.flipper.datastore.model.DataStoreContainer" 
     column="entity_id" foreign-key="fk_ds_container_id_dsr"  not-found="ignore" not-null="true"/>
   </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="com.flipper.datastore.model">
  <class name="DataStoreContainer" table="t_dscnt">
    <id name="id">
      <column name="ds_container_id"/>
      <generator class="native"/>
    </id>
    <property name="containerType" column="f_type" index="idx_containerType_dsc" lazy="false" type="integer"/>
    <property name="fileCount" column="f_fc" lazy="false" type="long"/>
    <property name="deletedCount" column="f_dc" lazy="false" type="long"/>
    <property name="path" column="f_path" length="255" lazy="false"  type="string"/>
    <set cascade="save-update,delete,delete-orphan,all-delete-orphan" inverse="true" name="documents">
      <key column="entity_id" />
      <one-to-many class="com.flipper.datastore.model.DataStoreReference"/>
    </set>
  </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Answer 1

The error message is clear: In at least one row the column f_usage has a null value. This null value can't be put into a primitive type like long, because primitive types can't represent null.

The not-null attribute in the property clause has no effect when there already is a null value in the database. The not-null attribute only is used for the dmd generation. But the f_usage column of your database table t_dsref probably allows null values (check with desc t_dsref in sql).

Solution: Exchange long with Long:

private Long usage; 

and when using the value you have to handle the null condition, for example

if (usage != null) {
  return usage.longValue();
else
  return -1;

(You are using getters and setters for access with hibernate, so this codelet should not be in the getter, because in the database a null value should continue to be null after an update, but you can do it in a second getter which you use everywhere else, or you do field access for hibernate.)

My general recommendation: Primitive datatypes should only be used for hibernate properties if the column is marked with NOT NULL in the database.