java.lang.ClassCastException: [B cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Object; while using JPA 2.2 query.getResultStream().findFirst()

The code of my Spring Data repository method is as follows:

public Optional<byte[]> findShipmentLabelByClientIdAndAwb(String clientId, String awb) {

    String queryString = "select g.shipmentLabel as shipmentLabel from GenericShipment g where g.client.id = :clientId and g.shipmentId = :awb " +
        " AND (g.processingStatus is null or g.processingStatus <> 'DELETED') AND g.shipmentLabel is not null";

    val query = entityManager.createQuery(queryString, byte[].class);

    query.setParameter("clientId", clientId);
    query.setParameter("awb", awb);

    return query.getResultStream().findFirst();

}

As you can see, I am attempting to fetch, as byte array, the shipmentLabel column, defined in my Postgres schema as bytea.
The following exception occurs at runtime:

> java.lang.ClassCastException: [B cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Object;
> at org.hibernate.internal.ScrollableResultsImpl.prepareCurrentRow(ScrollableResultsImpl.java:203)
> at org.hibernate.internal.ScrollableResultsImpl.next(ScrollableResultsImpl.java:101)
> at org.hibernate.query.internal.ScrollableResultsIterator.hasNext(ScrollableResultsIterator.java:33)
> at java.util.Spliterators$IteratorSpliterator.tryAdvance(Spliterators.java:1811)
> at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEachWithCancel(ReferencePipeline.java:126)
> at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyIntoWithCancel(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
> at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:486)
> at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:472)
> at java.util.stream.FindOps$FindOp.evaluateSequential(FindOps.java:152)
> at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
> at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.findFirst(ReferencePipeline.java:531)
> at org.hibernate.query.spi.StreamDecorator.findFirst(StreamDecorator.java:260)

I was wondering if this is the intended behaviour here or not, thanks in advance for your answers.

For the time being, the workaround is to use the JPA 2.1 variant:

> return query.getResultList().stream().findFirst();

As environment, I am using Spring Boot 2.3.3, Hibernate version is 5.4.20.

Try with getResultList first, and see if it works:

public Optional<Byte[]> findShipmentLabelByClientIdAndAwb(
		String clientId, String awb) {
    return entityManager.createQuery("""
		select 
			g.shipmentLabel as shipmentLabel 
		from GenericShipment g 
		where 
			g.client.id = :clientId and 
			g.shipmentId = :awb and 
			(
				g.processingStatus is null or 
				g.processingStatus <> 'DELETED'
			) and 
			g.shipmentLabel is not null
	    """)
	.setParameter("clientId", clientId)
	.setParameter("awb", awb)
	.setMaxResults(1)
	.getResultList()
	.stream()
	.findFirst();
}

Note that it's inefficient to select N records only to take the first one using fidFirst. What if this query returns 100 records? You'd still select all 100 from the DB.

That's why I added the setMaxResults call.

If that doesn't work, try debugging the Hibernate BinaryType and see why it doesn't return byte[].

There is no primitive stream for byte, you can check in the debugger what type of stream your are getting maybe Stream<Byte[]> or Stream<Object[]>. This can explain the exception you are getting. Using Byte[] should solve your issue.

public Optional<Byte[]> findShipmentLabelByClientIdAndAwb(String clientId, String awb) {
    String queryString = "select g.shipmentLabel as shipmentLabel from GenericShipment g where g.client.id = :clientId and g.shipmentId = :awb " +
        " AND (g.processingStatus is null or g.processingStatus <> 'DELETED') AND g.shipmentLabel is not null";

     val query = entityManager.createQuery(queryString, Byte[].class);

     query.setParameter("clientId", clientId);
     query.setParameter("awb", awb);

     return query.getResultStream().findFirst();

}