Hi Kevin, There is issue OPENJPA-549 addressing your concern -- if DB2Dictionary has not been initialized, what should be the default version of DB2.
OPENJPA-555 is only fixing a bad coding style to avoid null pointer exception. Catalina On 4/3/08, Kevin Sutter (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-555?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12585096#action_12585096] > > Kevin Sutter commented on OPENJPA-555: > -------------------------------------- > > Catalina, is the check for a null databaseProductName sufficient? I mean, > if the DB2Dictionary has not been initialized, then your changed methods > will now be returning "false". But, we very well could be using one of the > versions of DB2. We just haven't initialized and, thus, we don't know > whether we're using one of the desired versions of DB2. Especially since > we're dealing with the MappingTool. I would assume that we make some > decisions on how to perform the mapping based on the version of DB2 that > we're using. Otherwise, why would these methods be invoked in the first > place? From the text in the forum, it sounds like with this change, the > index won't automatically be created if we fall into this scenario. This > just doesn't sound like the right fix. Please justify. Thanks. > > > > > MappingTool got NullPointerException in > DB2Dictionary.isDB2ZOSV8xOrLater() > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: OPENJPA-555 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-555 > > Project: OpenJPA > > Issue Type: Bug > > Components: jdbc > > Reporter: Catalina Wei > > Assignee: Catalina Wei > > Fix For: 1.0.3, 1.1.0 > > > > > > MappingTool got NullPointerException in > DB2Dictionary.isDB2ZOSV8xOrLater() > > As reported by Amy : > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > at > > > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.DB2Dictionary.isDB2ZOSV8xOrLater(DB2Dictionary.java:392) > > at > > > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.DB2Dictionary.createIndexIfNecessary(DB2Dictionary.java:784) > > at > > > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.TableJDBCSeq.addSchema(TableJDBCSeq.java:244) > > at > > > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.MappingTool.addSequenceComponents(MappingTool.java:609) > > at > > > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.MappingTool.addSequenceComponents(MappingTool.java:591) > > at > > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.MappingTool.record(MappingTool.java:477) > > at > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.MappingTool.run(MappingTool.java:1075) > > at > > > org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.ant.MappingToolTask.executeOn(MappingToolTask.java:197) > > at > > org.apache.openjpa.lib.ant.AbstractTask.execute(AbstractTask.java:172) > > at > org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) > > at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) > > at > org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Sequential.execute(Sequential.java:64) > > at > org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) > > at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) > > The scenario is using the ant task of MappingTool to build schema > > for some JDO classes. > > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > >
