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Asked: 2026-06-01T10:27:40+00:00

I am using the hector HOM library to access my cassandra datastore. This library

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I am using the hector HOM library to access my cassandra datastore. This library is written in java and uses some reflexion when working with Collections.

I have a java Model that contains a List of Strings that I want to retrieve. Unfortunately I get the following exception:

Execution exception [[HectorObjectMapperException: exception while instantiating Collection type, scala.collection.JavaConversions$SeqWrapper]]

Caused by: me.prettyprint.hom.cache.HectorObjectMapperException: exception while instantiating Collection type, scala.collection.JavaConversions$SeqWrapper
    at me.prettyprint.hom.CollectionMapperHelper.instantiateCollection(CollectionMapperHelper.java:87) ~[hector-object-mapper-3.0-02.jar:na]
    at me.prettyprint.hom.HectorObjectMapper.createObject(HectorObjectMapper.java:297) ~[hector-object-mapper-3.0-02.jar:na]
    at me.prettyprint.hom.HectorObjectMapper.getObject(HectorObjectMapper.java:105) ~[hector-object-mapper-3.0-02.jar:na]
    at me.prettyprint.hom.EntityManagerImpl.find(EntityManagerImpl.java:132) ~[hector-object-mapper-3.0-02.jar:na]
Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: scala.collection.JavaConversions$SeqWrapper
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:340) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
    at me.prettyprint.hom.CollectionMapperHelper.instantiateCollection(CollectionMapperHelper.java:75) ~[hector-object-mapper-3.0-02.jar:na]
    at me.prettyprint.hom.HectorObjectMapper.createObject(HectorObjectMapper.java:297) ~[hector-object-mapper-3.0-02.jar:na]

I have tried explicitly creating a java.util.list object but it still causes the same problems. Here is my code to create and persist my model:

val geoModel = new GeoModel(geoRK)
val thingList: java.util.List[java.lang.String] = things match {
  case Some(t) => t.map(s => s.toString())
  case None => new java.util.ArrayList()
}
geoModel.setThings(thingList)
geoDAO.upsertModel(geoModel)

The model persists fine and I can see it in cassandra as:

(column=things, value=scala.collection.JavaConversions$SeqWrapper:0, timestamp=1333555422145002)

The problem is when retrieving the object back it appears Hector doens’t know how to handle the scala.collection type.

Is there anyway to get around this?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    edit:

    Sorry… misleading toString impl of scala.collection.JavaConversions$SeqWrapper it returns the same…

    You could however create a java.util.List from your List yourself as a workaround.

    original:

    instead of collection.JavaConversion you could use collections.JavaConverters.

    scala> import collection.JavaConverters._
import collection.JavaConverters._

scala> List(1,2,3).asJava
res1: java.util.List[Int] = [1, 2, 3]
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