I am having problems with the mapping


<any name="parent" id-type="int" meta-type="string" >
<meta-value value="ORGANIZATION123" class="model.Organization"/>
<column name="SUBJECT_ENTITY_NAME"/>
<column name="SUBJECT_ENTITY_ID"/>
</any>


could you please explain why I am getting class cast extception from meta-type. and if I remove meta-type, it inserts value but for SUBJECT_ENTITY_NAME it enters full qualified class name "model.Organization". How can I make it to enter value="ORGANIZATION123"

Exception stack trace?

Here is the exception: by using : meta-type="string">


java.lang.ClassCastException
at net.sf.hibernate.type.StringType.toString(StringType.java:47)
at net.sf.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeSet(NullableType.java:46)
at net.sf.hibernate.type.NullableType.nullSafeSet(NullableType.java:35)
at net.sf.hibernate.type.ObjectType.nullSafeSet(ObjectType.java:143)
at net.sf.hibernate.persister.EntityPersister.dehydrate(EntityPersister.
java:394)
at net.sf.hibernate.persister.EntityPersister.insert(EntityPersister.jav
a:512)
at net.sf.hibernate.persister.EntityPersister.insert(EntityPersister.jav
a:489)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.ScheduledInsertion.execute(ScheduledInsertion.j
ava:28)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.executeAll(SessionImpl.java:2306)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.execute(SessionImpl.java:2259)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:2185)
at net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.commit(JDBCTransaction.j

This is bizarre!

Are you really using Hibernate 2.1.2?

ObjectType should be calling MetaType, not StringType...

I do not understand how this can occur - it seems as if the <meta-value> is not even there!

Thanks Hibernate2.1.2 solves it I was using old one,

Actually, the feature did not exist in "the old one"....