Cannot override setPersistenceState in 3.0-M5

[Bob Schellink]

Hi all,

Perhaps this is a known issue but there seems to be a slight
regression in 3.0-M5 when overriding setPersistenceState.
When invoking dataContext#newObject a NPE is thrown.

The reason I want to override setPersistenceState is to set the
inheritance type of the hierarchy. For example:

  public class Manager extends _Manager {

    public void setPersistenceState(int state) {
        super.setPersistenceState(state);

        if(state == PersistenceState.NEW) {
           setEmployeeType("MANAGER");
        }
    }
  }


To test I use:

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    DataContext dc = DataContext.createDataContext();

    Employee emp = (Employee) dc.newObject(Manager.class); // <-- this
call fails
    dc.commitChanges();
  }


Stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.cayenne.access.ObjectStore.registerDiff(ObjectStore.java:187)
        at 
org.apache.cayenne.access.ObjectStore.nodePropertyChanged(ObjectStore.java:1080)
        at 
org.apache.cayenne.util.ObjectContextGraphAction.handleSimplePropertyChange(ObjectContextGraphAction.java:83)
        at 
org.apache.cayenne.util.ObjectContextGraphAction.handlePropertyChange(ObjectContextGraphAction.java:67)
        at 
org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.propertyChanged(DataContext.java:1591)
        at 
org.apache.cayenne.CayenneDataObject.writeProperty(CayenneDataObject.java:226)
        at test.auto._Employee.setEmployeeType(_Employee.java:16)
        at test.Manager.setPersistenceState(Manager.java:13)
        at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.newObject(DataContext.java:750)
        at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.newObject(DataContext.java:715)
        at test.Test.main(Test.java:17)


Should I open a JIRA for this?

kind regards

bob