ClassCastException when subclassing ParseUser (Parse.com)

Question

I have some custom fields in my _User class on parse and I would like to subclass it in order to implement some convenience methods such as getName(), getSurname() and so on... usually i have no problems when subclassing ParseObjects, but with ParseUser I get a ClassCastException when obtaining the current user. Here is what I have done:

@ParseClassName("_User")
public class ParseStudent extends ParseUser { ... }

Then I subscribed the new class in my Application class

ParseObject.registerSubclass(ParseStudent.class);

When I try to access the current user as an instance of my subclass in this way

ParseStudent user = (ParseStudent) ParseUser.getCurrentUser();

I get the exception. Any ideas on what could be wrong?

Pyrox · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-14 15:09:54Z

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The problem was in the custom subclass subscribing, which I performed after parse initialization. It must be done before it, as stated in the docs.

answered Jul 14, 2015 at 15:09

Pyrox

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