[Crash] ClassNotFound when running with DEBUG environment variable set to false about exposed HOT 4 CLOSED

After an investigation, I discovered that the following was the issue:

1. There was an inheritance relationship involved for that particular entity and table. The code was declared in a parent table definition
2. The code was invoked in a constructor of the Table, which is an object.
3. The EntityClass is an object too, it is declared after the Table in the same file
4. The table was accessed before the EntityClass object when DEBUG was off (in the first query) internally by Exposed.
5. When DEBUG was TRUE, the EntityClass was accessed before the table definition

As a result, when the table was accessed for a query by Exposed for the first time, the child object was accessed first, which was trying to access the EntityClass, but the EntityClass tried to access the table which was not initialized yet. As a result, null was simply passed as an argument to the parent class's updateHook, due to a race/circular dependency.
This did not happen for tables where inheritance was not involved (for some reason?).

The method of declaring the updateHook was taken from one of the Github issues in the app and was actually used widely in the project before, and we did not notice the catch there.
So the issue is partially with the lacking documentation (#1703) and partially our fault, but regardless, I'm sorry for blaming everything on the library.

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From your stack trace, the issue is not with how your updateHook is defined, but with how it is called.

My guess is that you're calling it from an init block of some entity?

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As I've explained in the issue body, I'm calling it from an EntryTable.init() block

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Appreciate the investigation done, @Nek-12 !

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