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According to the Queries and Indexes doc you can go a query effectively identically (so far as I can tell) to this:

PersistenceManager pm = PMF.get().getPersistenceManager();
try {
    Query q = pm.newQuery(App.class);
    q.setOrdering("name desc");

    try {
        results = (ArrayList<App>) q.execute();
    } finally {
        q.closeAll();
    }
} finally {
    pm.close();
}

However, I'm getting the following error on the results = (ArrayList<App>) q.execute(); line:

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.datanucleus.store.appengine.query.StreamingQueryResult cannot be cast to java.util.ArrayList
    at com.killerrobots.AppSite.MainServlet.getApplications(MainServlet.java:66)
    at com.killerrobots.AppSite.MainServlet.doGet(MainServlet.java:26)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:693)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093)
    at com.google.apphosting.utils.servlet.TransactionCleanupFilter.doFilter(TransactionCleanupFilter.java:43)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
    at com.google.apphosting.utils.jetty.DevAppEngineWebAppContext.handle(DevAppEngineWebAppContext.java:54)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)
    at com.google.appengine.tools.development.JettyContainerService$ApiProxyHandler.handle(JettyContainerService.java:306)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:313)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:506)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:830)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:381)
    at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:396)
    at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:442)

Any ideas?

Jeremy Logan
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You can cast the result of execute to a List<whatever>, but not specifically to an ArrayList<whatever> which is what your code is trying to do! Why not just use List, the abstraction you're allowed to cast to, rather than ArrayList, the concrete implementation that you're not allowed to cast to?

Alex Martelli
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