HibernateReplicator deepCopy issue

[Valy Sivec]

Hello, I'm using some third party legacy classes and I'm having problems using the deepCopy method of the HibernateReplicator class.

Basically here is a simple case:

public class MainClass {

     public static void main(String[] args) {
       
        MainClass m = new MainClass();
        m.test();
     
     }

     public void test(){
       
    A from = new A();
    from.setAction(EnumAction.UNKNOWN);
               
         HibernateBeanReplicator replicator = new Hibernate3BeanReplicator();
       
         A copy = replicator.deepCopy(from);
       
         System.out.println("Copy is:" + copy);
       
     }

}

It fails instantiating EnumAction (class definition below), with the following exception:

/**********************************************************************

Exception in thread "main" net.sf.beanlib.BeanlibException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: test.enumeration.EnumAction.<init>()
    at net.sf.beanlib.provider.replicator.BeanReplicator.replicateBean(BeanReplicator.java:134)
    at net.sf.beanlib.hibernate3.Hibernate3JavaBeanReplicator.replicateBean(Hibernate3JavaBeanReplicator.java:71)
-
    Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: test.enumeration.EnumAction.<init>()

***************END EXCEPTION STACK *************************/

package test.enumeration;

import java.io.Serializable;

public abstract class Enum implements Serializable{

        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
       
        /**
         * Description of this Enum instance
         */
        protected final String description;

        /**
         * Natural ordering number for the Enum
         */
        protected int ordinal;

        /**
         * Protected constructor with no description.
         *
         * @param ordinal    the natural ordering number
         */
        protected Enum( int ordinal ) {
           
            this( ordinal, null );
        }
       
        /**
         * Protected constructor.
         *
         * @param ordinal   the natural ordering number
         * @param description informative description string
         */
        protected Enum( int ordinal, String description ) {

            this.description = ( description == null ?
                                        getClass().getName() + ordinal :
                                        description );
           
            this.ordinal = ordinal;
        }

}

=============================================================================

public class EnumAction extends Enum
{
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1;
       
        private static final Map stringMap = new HashMap();
        private static final Map ordMap = new HashMap();

        public static final int UNKNOWN_ORD = -1;
        public static final String UNKNOWN_STR = "UNKNOWN";

        public static final EnumAction UNKNOWN = new EnumAction(UNKNOWN_ORD, UNKNOWN_STR);
       
        public static final EnumAction FASTACTION = new EnumAction(1, "FASTACTION");
       
       
        protected EnumAction(int ordinal, String description)
        {
            super(ordinal, description);
           
            if (stringMap.containsKey(description)) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Duplicate string in EnumAction enum: " + description);
            }
            Integer intOrdinal = new Integer(ordinal);
            if (ordMap.containsKey(intOrdinal)) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Duplicate ordinal in EnumAction enum: " + ordinal);
            }
            stringMap.put(description,this);
            ordMap.put(intOrdinal,this);
        }
       
}

public class A {
   
    private EnumAction action = EnumAction.UNKNOWN;
   
   
    public String toString(){
       
        System.out.println("Object A: => action is:" + action);
       
        return action.toString();
       
    }

    public EnumAction getAction() {
        return action;
    }

    public void setAction(EnumAction action) {
        this.action = action;
    }

}

[Hanson Char]

Please see the reply I posted to Beanlib Google Groups:

  http://groups.google.com/group/beanlib/browse_thread/thread/c30fdac9b2f547fd#

Cheers,
Hanson