[OPENJPA-2065] JPA 2.0 Spec. Violation? EntityManager#createNamedQuery(String, Class) bombs with non-entity Class parameter

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: jpa
• Labels: specification
• Assignee: Richard G. Curtis
• Reporter: Laird Nelson
• Created: 25/Oct/11 18:01
• Updated: 02/Feb/12 17:15
• Resolved: 05/Nov/11 16:53

Description

Suppose we have an interface, A.

Suppose we have a JPA-compliant entity class, B, that implements A.

This construction will fail at runtime:

final TypedQuery<A> q = em.createNamedQuery("someNamedQuery", A.class);

Hibernate and EclipseLink both accept this construction.

I don't see anywhere in the JPA specification that the class parameter must denote an entity type.

Issue Links

• relates to: OPENJPA-2071 NPE during ResultPacker interface processing