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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:22:46+00:00

When run against and Oracle database, what is the runtime type of the object

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When run against and Oracle database, what is the runtime type of the object that the following Spring Hibernate Template (Spring 2.5 and Hibernate 3.3.2GA) code returns where the SQL query is a counting query like select count(*) from table?

 String sql = "select count(*) from table";
 BigDecimal count = (BigDecimal) hibernateTemplate.execute(
   new HibernateCallback() { 
    public Object doInHibernate(Session session) throws HibernateException {
     SQLQuery query = session.createSQLQuery(sql);
     return (BigDecimal) query.uniqueResult();
    }});
 return count;

This code throws the following exception:

javax.ejb.EJBException: EJB Exception: : java.lang.ClassCastException: java.math.BigDecimal cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Object;
    at org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache.put(StandardQueryCache.java:83)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.putResultInQueryCache(Loader.java:2185)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listUsingQueryCache(Loader.java:2129)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2087)
    at org.hibernate.loader.custom.CustomLoader.list(CustomLoader.java:289)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.listCustomQuery(SessionImpl.java:1695)
    at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.list(AbstractSessionImpl.java:142)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SQLQueryImpl.list(SQLQueryImpl.java:150)
    at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractQueryImpl.uniqueResult(AbstractQueryImpl.java:804)
    at com.db.abstrack.dao.hibernate.RfqCdoUsDaoHibernate$1.doInHibernate(RfqCdoUsDaoHibernate.java:124)
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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out that the ClassCastException may be due to a bug in the Hibernate standard query cache.

    Solution is to add a scalar to the query:

    String sql = "select count(*) as result from table";
BigDecimal count = (BigDecimal) ht.execute(new HibernateCallback() {
    public Object doInHibernate(Session session)
            throws HibernateException {
        SQLQuery query = session.createSQLQuery(sql);
        // Add scalar to avoid bug in Hibernate query cache.
        query.addScalar("result", Hibernate.BIG_DECIMAL);
        return query.uniqueResult();
    }
});

    References:

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