type="locale" ignored

megadix · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:49 am

I'm having a rather strange problem with type="local".
I get ClassCastException because Hibernate ignores my directive and instead uses StringType instead of LocaleType, so the cast fails.
My workaround is to use type="string" but it seems a sub-optimal solution. Any ideas?

Thanks, Dimitri

Hibernate version: 3.2

Mapping documents & classes (excerpts):

Code:

public class User implements java.io.Serializable {
...
    private Locale locale;
...
    public Locale getLocale() { return locale; }
    public void setLocale(Locale locale) { this.locale = locale; }

Code:

<hibernate-mapping>
  <class name="it.imaginary.platform.model.User" table="`USERS`">
...
<property name="locale" type="locale" column="`LOCALE`" length="2" not-null="true" />
...
  </class>
</hibernate-mapping>