WorkflowPersistenceManager impl fails to create folders automatically when there's a document node as a folder path

Suppose there's a hippo document in /content/documents/demosite/my/new/path/newdoc, which is a hippo:document handle.
Now, you are creating a new document via WorkflowPersistenceManager in the path, /content/documents/demosite/my/new/path/newdoc/subdoc, where 'newdoc' should be a hippo folder and subdoc should be a hippo:document handle. However, this fails due to the following codes:

public String createAndReturn(final String absPath, final String nodeTypeName, final String name, final boolean autoCreateFolders) throws ObjectBeanPersistenceException {
try {
final Node parentFolderNode;
if (!session.itemExists(absPath)) {
if (!autoCreateFolders)

{ throw new ObjectBeanPersistenceException("The folder node is not found on the path: " + absPath); }

else

{ parentFolderNode = createMissingFolders(absPath); }

} else

{ parentFolderNode = session.getNode(absPath); }

return createNodeByWorkflow(parentFolderNode, nodeTypeName, name);
} catch (ObjectBeanPersistenceException e)

{ throw e; }

catch (Exception e)

{ throw new ObjectBeanPersistenceException(e); }

}

So, it tries to create a folder node only when there's no jcr item found by the path.
It should have checked the node type of the folder path(s) as well..