Integration

Hi,

I can sort of understand why this happens, but it has caught me out a few times.

I have an object that I want to pass to an Invocation Service (POF enabled) and this object has a "map" field...

private Map<String, Set<Object>> data;

When this is deserialised, the values in the map are not Sets, but instead com.tangosol.util.ImmutableArrayList$ListView

I assume this is a limitation of POF because it has no idea what sort of collection it needs to create for map values

The code below will produce a ClassCastException...

package test;


import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;


import com.tangosol.io.Serializer;
import com.tangosol.io.pof.ConfigurablePofContext;
import com.tangosol.io.pof.PofReader;
import com.tangosol.io.pof.PofWriter;
import com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableObject;
import com.tangosol.util.Binary;
import com.tangosol.util.ExternalizableHelper;


public class PofBug implements PortableObject {


  private Map<String, Set<Object>> data;

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  @Override
  public void readExternal(PofReader reader) throws IOException {
  data = reader.readMap(1, new HashMap<Object, Set<Object>>());
  }


  @Override
  public void writeExternal(PofWriter writer) throws IOException {
  writer.writeMap(1, data);
  }


  public static void main(String[] args) {
  PofBug bug = new PofBug();

  Map<String, Set<Object>> testData = new HashMap<String, Set<Object>>();
  Set<Object> setOfStuff = new HashSet<Object>();
  setOfStuff.add("[STUFF]");

  testData.put("[KEY]", setOfStuff);

  bug.data = testData;

  Serializer serializer = new ConfigurablePofContext("/test/test-pof-config.xml");

  Binary bin = ExternalizableHelper.toBinary(bug, serializer);

  PofBug deserialised = (PofBug) ExternalizableHelper.fromBinary(bin, serializer);

  // BANG!!!
  Set<Object> mySet = deserialised.data.get("[KEY]");

  System.out.println("IT WORKED!!!! " + mySet);
  }

}

The POF config is...

<pof-config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/coherence/coherence-pof-config"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/coherence/coherence-pof-config coherence-pof-config.xsd">


  <user-type-list>
  <include>coherence-pof-config.xml</include>


  <user-type>
  <type-id>1001</type-id>
  <class-name>test.PofBug</class-name>
  </user-type>


  </user-type-list>
</pof-config>

I assume that the thing to do will be to manually write each entry (or wrap my Set<Object> values into another type)

Is this a known "feature"/"bug"?

Thanks