Error on bad cast of referenced object

3 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/persistence.h b/lib/persistence.h
index 86b0dce..e8e3415 100644
--- a/lib/persistence.h
+++ b/lib/persistence.h
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ namespace Persistence {
 			if (auto teo = std::dynamic_pointer_cast<T>(sharedObjects.at(id))) {
 				this->v = std::move(teo);
 			}
+			else {
+				throw std::runtime_error("Named type doesn't cast to target type");
+			}
 		}
 	};
 }
diff --git a/test/fixtures/json/shared_ptr_wrong_type.json b/test/fixtures/json/shared_ptr_wrong_type.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..68f7533
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/json/shared_ptr_wrong_type.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+	"@typeid": "SharedTestObject",
+		"sptr": {
+			"@typeid": "SubObject2",
+			"@id": "someid"
+		},
+		"ssptr": "someid"
+}
diff --git a/test/test-persistence.cpp b/test/test-persistence.cpp
index 05a02bb..a195007 100644
--- a/test/test-persistence.cpp
+++ b/test/test-persistence.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,19 @@ struct SubObject : public AbsObject {
 	}
 };
 
+struct SubObject2 : public AbsObject {
+	bool
+	persist(Persistence::PersistenceStore & store) override
+	{
+		return AbsObject::persist(store) && STORE_TYPE;
+	}
+
+	void
+	dummy() const override
+	{
+	}
+};
+
 struct TestObject : public Persistence::Persistable {
 	TestObject() = default;
 
@@ -227,6 +240,12 @@ BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(load_shared_object_diff_default, JPP)
 	BOOST_CHECK_NE(to->sptr, to->ssptr);
 }
 
+BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(load_shared_object_wrong_type, JPP)
+{
+	BOOST_CHECK_THROW(load_json<std::unique_ptr<SharedTestObject>>(FIXTURESDIR "json/shared_ptr_wrong_type.json"),
+			std::runtime_error);
+}
+
 BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(load_shared_object_null, JPP)
 {
 	auto to = load_json<std::unique_ptr<SharedTestObject>>(FIXTURESDIR "json/shared_ptr_null.json");