Hi All

I have a class and 2 joined-subclasses. The parent class is AbstractDatasource. The 2 sub classes are JDBCDatasource and BeanDatasource. When I retreive a list of AbstractDatasource using the foloowing code



I discover that the objects arent of the correct class. I know this because I have 1 BeanDatasource in the database and when I try to convert the BeanDatasource using the following code:



but I get a ClassCastException. This I beleive has to do with some kind of proxy that is used by Hibernate. I was wandering how can I turn of this proxy, that is if it's the problem or is there something else wrong?

When I do a System.out.println( objects.get(0) ) I see this
com.mycompany.AbstractDatasource$$EnhancerBYCGLIB$$ but this should show com.mycompany.BeanDatasource.

Thanks in advance,
Martyn

Proxy objects will extend the type you ask for in the session.get() operation. So, to cast it you will need to get hold of the unproxied object inside. One way to do this is the following:

class Parent
{
public Child asChild()
{
return (Child)this;
}
}


...
Child c = session.get(Parent.class, id);

Mind that the same goes for instanceof. You could make isA methods for that (e.g. boolean isA(Class type).