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WLS 10.3: Character Data type in JPA Entities treated as Integer and throwing Data Type Mismatch Error. (Doc ID 1159084.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 19, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Weblogic Server - Version: 10.3 and later   [Release: and later ]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

In Open JPA 'Character' is treated as Integer by EJB 3.0 implementation and throws Data Type mismatch error as below:

Exception in thread "main" javax.ejb.EJBException: EJB Exception: ; nested exception is:
<openjpa-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT-r422266:891341 fatal user error> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: "com.tekelec.gps.ias.nsp.sample.ejb3.entity.Person.sex" declares a column that is not compatible with the expected type "integer". Column details:
Full Name: TST_PERSON.SEX
Type: varchar
Size: 1
Default: null
Not Null: false

at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.RemoteBusinessIntfProxy.unwrapRemoteException(RemoteBusinessIntfProxy.java:105)
at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.RemoteBusinessIntfProxy.invoke(RemoteBusinessIntfProxy.java:87)
at $Proxy0.addPerson(Unknown Source)
at com.tekelec.gps.ias.nsp.sample.ejb3.tests.integration.TestPersonService.addPersonwithCharDataType(TestPersonService.java:49)
at com.tekelec.gps.ias.nsp.sample.ejb3.tests.integration.TestPersonService.main(TestPersonService.java:54)
Caused by: <openjpa-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT-r422266:891341 fatal user error> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException:

Changes

N/A

Cause

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