Question

I am building an application using JPA, JSF, EJB, Derby. At this point the application is still small. I have a form in the application to add new products. When adding data to the db it goes smoothly until I restart the application or the server. When I restart either the server or app I get java.lang.StackOverflowError, I still can query the db for the data represented by the product db, but creation product is not possible. I have only 5 entries in the db, as of now, but I am concerned about this happening so early.

This is the Ejb (Getter, setter and constructors removed for simplicity):

@Stateless
public class ProductEJB{

    @PersistenceContext(unitName = "luavipuPU")
    private EntityManager em;

    public List<Product> findAllProducts()
    {
        TypedQuery<Product> query = em.createNamedQuery("findAllProducts", Product.class);
        return query.getResultList();
    }

    public Product findProductById(int productId)
    {
        return em.find(Product.class, productId);
    }

    public Product createProduct(Product product)
    {
        product.setDateAdded(productCreationDate());
        em.persist(product);
        return product;        
    }    

    public void updateProduct(Product product)
    {
        em.merge(product);
    }

    public void deleteProduct(Product product)
    {
        product = em.find(Product.class, product.getProduct_id());
        em.remove(em.merge(product));
    }

this is the ProductController (Getter, setter and constructors removed for simplicity):

    @Named
@RequestScoped
public class ProductController {

    @EJB
    private ProductEJB productEjb;
    @EJB
    private CategoryEJB categoryEjb;

    private Product product = new Product();
    private List<Product> productList = new ArrayList<Product>();

    private Category category;
    private List<Category> categoryList = new ArrayList<Category>();

    public String doCreateProduct()
    {
        product = productEjb.createProduct(product);
        productList = productEjb.findAllProducts();
        return "listProduct?faces-redirect=true";
    }

    public String doDeleteProduct()
    {
        productEjb.deleteProduct(product);
        return "deleteProduct?faces-redirect=true";
    }

    public String cancelDeleteAction()
    {
        return "listProduct?faces-redirect=true";
    }


    @PostConstruct
    public void init()
    {
        categoryList = categoryEjb.findAllCategory();
        productList = productEjb.findAllProducts();        
    }

Category Entity (Getters, setters, hash() and constructors removed for simplicity):

@Entity
@NamedQueries({
    @NamedQuery(name= "findAllCategory", query="SELECT c FROM Category c")        
})
public class Category implements Serializable
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy= GenerationType.AUTO)
    private int category_id;
    private String name;
    private String description;
    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "category_fk")
        private List<Product> product_fk;

 // readObject() and writeObject() 

    private void readObject(ObjectInputStream ois) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException
    {
        // default deserializer
        ois.defaultReadObject();

        // read the attributes
        category_id = ois.readInt();
        name = (String)ois.readObject();
        description = (String)ois.readObject();

    }

    private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream oos) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException
    {
        // default serializer
        oos.defaultWriteObject();

        // write the attributes
        oos.writeInt(category_id);
        oos.writeObject(name);
        oos.writeObject(description);


       }

 @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (obj == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }
        final Category other = (Category) obj;
        if (this.category_id != other.category_id) {
            return false;
        }
        if ((this.name == null) ? (other.name != null) : !this.name.equals(other.name)) {
            return false;
        }
        if ((this.description == null) ? (other.description != null) : !this.description.equals(other.description)) {
            return false;
        }
        if (this.product_fk != other.product_fk && (this.product_fk == null || !this.product_fk.equals(other.product_fk))) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

Product Entity (Getters, setters, hash() and constructors removed for simplicity):

@Entity
@NamedQueries({
    @NamedQuery(name="findAllProducts", query = "SELECT p from Product p")

})
public class Product implements Serializable
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy= GenerationType.AUTO)
    private int product_id;
    private String name;
    private String description;
    protected byte[] imageFile;
    private Float price;
    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    private Date dateAdded;        
    @ManyToOne
    private Category category_fk;
    @ManyToOne
    private SaleDetails saleDetails_fk;

    // readObject() and writeObject() methods

    private void readObject (ObjectInputStream ois)throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException
    {
        // default deserialization
        ois.defaultReadObject();

        // read the attributes
        product_id = ois.readInt();
        name = (String)ois.readObject();
        description = (String)ois.readObject();

        for(int i=0; i<imageFile.length; i++ )
        {
            imageFile[i]=ois.readByte();
        }

        price = ois.readFloat();
        dateAdded = (Date)ois.readObject();
        category_fk = (Category)ois.readObject();
        saleDetails_fk = (SaleDetails)ois.readObject();

    }

@Override
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
    if (obj == null) {
        return false;
    }
    if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
        return false;
    }
    final Product other = (Product) obj;
    if (this.product_id != other.product_id) {
        return false;
    }
    if ((this.name == null) ? (other.name != null) : !this.name.equals(other.name)) {
        return false;
    }
    if ((this.description == null) ? (other.description != null) : !this.description.equals(other.description)) {
        return false;
    }
    if (!Arrays.equals(this.imageFile, other.imageFile)) {
        return false;
    }
    if (this.price != other.price && (this.price == null || !this.price.equals(other.price))) {
        return false;
    }
    if (this.dateAdded != other.dateAdded && (this.dateAdded == null || !this.dateAdded.equals(other.dateAdded))) {
        return false;
    }
    if (this.category_fk != other.category_fk && (this.category_fk == null || !this.category_fk.equals(other.category_fk))) {
        return false;
    }
    if (this.saleDetails_fk != other.saleDetails_fk && (this.saleDetails_fk == null || !this.saleDetails_fk.equals(other.saleDetails_fk))) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

    private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream oos) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException
    {
        // default serialization
        oos.defaultWriteObject();

        // write object attributes
        oos.writeInt(product_id);
        oos.writeObject(name);
        oos.writeObject(description);
        oos.write(imageFile);
        oos.writeFloat(price);
        oos.writeObject(dateAdded);
        oos.writeObject(category_fk);
        oos.writeObject(saleDetails_fk);

    }

This is the stacktrace:

    javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: java.lang.StackOverflowError
    at javax.faces.component.MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.invoke(MethodBindingMethodExpressionAdapter.java:102)
    at com.sun.faces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:102)
    at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:315)
    at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.broadcastEvents(UIViewRoot.java:794)
    at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:1259)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationPhase.execute(InvokeApplicationPhase.java:81)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)
    at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:593)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1550)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:281)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:161)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:331)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:231)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$AdapterCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:317)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:195)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:860)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:757)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1056)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:229)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
    at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
    at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
    at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
    at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
    at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
    at java.util.Vector$Itr.<init>(Vector.java:1120)
    at java.util.Vector.iterator(Vector.java:1114)
    at java.util.AbstractList.hashCode(AbstractList.java:540)
    at java.util.Vector.hashCode(Vector.java:988)
    at org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectList.hashCode(IndirectList.java:460)
    at com.lv.Entity.Category.hashCode(Category.java:96)
    at com.lv.Entity.Product.hashCode(Product.java:148)
    at java.util.AbstractList.hashCode(AbstractList.java:541)

Answer 1

Your Category class has list of Products and in the equals method of the Category class you are doing

if (this.product_fk != other.product_fk && (this.product_fk == null || !this.product_fk.equals(other.product_fk))) {
    return false;
}

which invokes the equals method on the Product class, the equals method on the Product class which does

if (this.category_fk != other.category_fk && (this.category_fk == null || !this.category_fk.equals(other.category_fk))) {
    return false;
}

which invokes the equals method on the Category once again and the whole process repeats causing an Stack overflow.

Solution:

1. Either remove the bi-direction dependency.
2. Fix the equals method.

Hope it helps.