Hibernate returns BigIntegers instead of longs

Question

This is my Sender entity

@Entity
public class Sender {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private long senderId;
...


...

    public long getSenderId() {
            return senderId;
    }

    public void setSenderId(long senderId) {
            this.senderId = senderId;
    }
}

When I try to execute following query:

StringBuilder query = new StringBuilder();
query.append("Select sender.* ");
query.append("From sender ");
query.append("INNER JOIN coupledsender_subscriber ");
query.append("ON coupledsender_subscriber.Sender_senderId = sender.SenderId ");
query.append("WHERE coupledsender_subscriber.Subscriber_subscriberId = ? ");

SQLQuery q = (SQLQuery) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createSQLQuery(query.toString());
q.setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(Sender.class));
q.setLong(0, subscriberId);

return q.list();

The following error occures:

ERROR: org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor - HHH000123: IllegalArgumentException in class: be.gimme.persistence.entities.Sender, setter method of property: senderId

ERROR: org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor - HHH000091: Expected type: long, actual value: java.math.BigInteger

This happens because the senderId in the class Sender is actually a long instead of a BigInteger (which is returned by Hibernate).

I was wondering what the best practice was in a case like this, should I be using BigIntegers as id's (Seems a bit of an overkill)?

Should I convert the query results to objects of class Sender manually (That would be a pitty)? Or can I just make Hibernate return long id's instead of BigIntegers? Or any other ideas?

I'm using Spring, Hibernate 4.1.1 and MySQL

Answer 1

The default for ".list()" in hibernate appears to be BigInteger return types for Numeric. Here's one work around:

session.createSQLQuery("select column as num from table")
  .addScalar("num", StandardBasicTypes.LONG).list();

Answer 2

Adding to #Hedley comment to fix it globally you can add a line in SQLDialect constructor. In my project it was like:

public PostgreSQLDialect() {
        super();
        registerHibernateType(Types.BIGINT, StandardBasicTypes.LONG.getName());
    }

Answer 3

Object database mapping is wrong. There is a casting exception here saying database field is BigInteger, but object property is long.

BigInteger is a special class to hold unlimited size integer values. Furthermore, BigInteger can not cast to long implicitly.

To avoid this error database field which is BigInteger should be change to long compatible type. Change it to a int type where int can be casted to long implicitly. See BigInteger.

Answer 4

In older versions of Hibernate you can use

  session.createSQLQuery("select column as num from table")
 .addScalar("num", Hibernate.LONG).list();

Answer 5

you can check on following link check here for BigInteger identity generator class