Re: mixinTypes property cannot be "casted" to a javax.jcr.Property

[Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>]

Is this still an issue after the latest multi-value fixes by Justin ?

Regards
Felix

On 31.08.2010 13:15, Clemens Wyss wrote:
> looks like in these "cases" the property jcr:mixinTypes exists, BUT
> it is empty, hence
>  JcrPropertyMap#convertToType(final CacheEntry entry, Class<T> type)
> returns null (instead of the multivalued Property).
> Whether this is correct or not is open to discussion...
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Clemens Wyss [mailto:clemensdev@mysign.ch]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:38 AM
>> To: 'dev@sling.apache.org'
>> Subject: jcr:mixinTypes property cannot be "casted" to a
>> javax.jcr.Property
>>
>>
>> in the jQuery JCR explorer I iterate over the properties of a resource
>> making use of org.apache.sling.api.resource.PersistableValueMap. I.e.
>> var properties =
>> resource.adaptTo(Packages.org.apache.sling.api.resource.Persis
>> tableValueMap);
>>
>> I then try to "cast" the property to javax.jcr.Property,
>>
>> var property = properties.get( id, Packages.javax.jcr.Property );
>>
>> Now when I browse through /jcr:system/jcr:nodeTypes
>> (e.g./jcr:system/jcr:nodeTypes/nt:folder) the property
>> jcr:mixinTypes fails to cast. In these cases I fall back to the
>> string representation of the property. In case of
>> /jcr:system/jcr:nodeTypes/nt:folder I get something like:
>>
>> [Ljava.lang.Object;@dbd726
>>
>> BUT I would expect jcr:mixinTypes to be a multivalued Name property?
>> Hence it should cast properly to Property.
>>
>> Also noticeable:
>> I have no problems with the jcr:supertypes property, which is also
>>  a multivalued Name property.
>>