Optimistic Locking fails when version field is part of a Aggregate

Question

I'm trying to persist a Mapped Object using 9.0.3 Toplink.
The object uses optimistic locking while the Timestamp versioning field is part of an Aggreate Descriptor. This works well in the Workbench (does not complain).
Unfortunally it does not work whenever I use the UnitOfWork to register and commit the chances.
Sample code:
Object original;
UnitOfWork unitOfWork = ...          
Object clone =   unitOfWork.registerExistingObject(original);
clone.setBarcode("bliblalbu");
unitOfWork.commit();This throws an nasty OptimisticLockException, complaining about a missing versioning field:
LOCAL EXCEPTION STACK:
EXCEPTION [TOPLINK-5004] (TopLink - 9.0.3 (Build 423)): oracle.toplink.exceptions.OptimisticLockException
EXCEPTION DESCRIPTION: An attempt was made to update the object [BusinessObject:{id:12382902,shorttext:null,barcode:bliblablu,ownerLocation:null,IdEntryName:0,idCs:20579121}], but it has no version number in the identity map.
It may not have been read before the update was attempted.
CLASS> de.grob.wps.domain.model.BusinessObjectBO PK> [12382902]
     at oracle.toplink.exceptions.OptimisticLockException.noVersionNumberWhenUpdating(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.descriptors.VersionLockingPolicy.addLockValuesToTranslationRow(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.internal.queryframework.DatabaseQueryMechanism.updateObjectForWrite(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.queryframework.WriteObjectQuery.executeCommit(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.internal.queryframework.DatabaseQueryMechanism.executeWrite(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.queryframework.WriteObjectQuery.execute(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.queryframework.DatabaseQuery.execute(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.Session.internalExecuteQuery(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.UnitOfWork.internalExecuteQuery(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.Session.executeQuery(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.Session.executeQuery(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.internal.sessions.CommitManager.commitAllObjects(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.Session.writeAllObjects(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.UnitOfWork.commitToDatabase(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.UnitOfWork.commitRootUnitOfWork(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.toplink.publicinterface.UnitOfWork.commitAndResume(Unknown Source)
     at de.grob.wps.dwarf.domainstore.toplink.ToplinkTransaction.commit(ToplinkTransaction.java:60)
     at de.grob.wps.dwarf.domainstore.toplink.ToplinkPersistenceManager.commit(ToplinkPersistenceManager.java:396)
     at de.grob.wps.dwarf.domainstore.toplink.ToplinkPersistenceManagerTest.testPersistSerializableWithBusinessObjects(ToplinkPersistenceManagerTest.java:87)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
     at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
     at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
     at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:392)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:276)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:167)So what can I to fix this problem? BTW the Object I try to persists has been read from database and the IDE debugger shows what that the aggregate object contains java.sql.Timestamp instances.

Answer 1

Sorry guys. My debugger fooled me. The locking field wasn't initialized in the database. This caused the problem which is fixed now.
Thx anyway.
Bye
Toby