[Simple-support] had parsing working for strings, but now need to do so for ArrayList

[meghiddo <mat...@ho...>]

I had code working that took data from a web service, parsed it, and loaded
the values into a list that I could use in a rich:tree.  This was working
just fine when it took the data from this xml:

[code]   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
- <deviceCollection>
- <device>
  <deviceId>exampleDevice1</deviceId> 
  <name>Example Device 1</name> 
  </device>
- <device>
  <deviceId>WSN-Module-8F3A-D247-4B99</deviceId> 
  <name>WSN CRio Device</name> 
  </device>
  </deviceCollection>  [/code]

But now I need to convert it to take the data from a different xml set up
that looks like this:

[code] - <measurementProject>
  <projectId>1</projectId> 
  <name>matt</name> 
  <permissions class="java.util.ArrayList" /> 
  <devices class="java.util.ArrayList" /> 
  <channels class="java.util.ArrayList" /> 
  </measurementProject>   [/code]

But when I did so I get this exception:

[code]org.simpleframework.xml.core.InstantiationException: Type class
java.util.ArrayList is not compatible with class java.lang.String
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Factory.getOverride(Factory.java:105)
	at
org.simpleframework.xml.core.PrimitiveFactory.getInstance(PrimitiveFactory.java:66)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Primitive.readElement(Primitive.java:181)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Primitive.read(Primitive.java:119)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.readObject(Composite.java:520)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:477)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.readElement(Composite.java:458)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.readElements(Composite.java:374)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:259)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:204)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:158)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:135)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Traverser.read(Traverser.java:78)
	at
org.simpleframework.xml.core.CompositeInlineList.read(CompositeInlineList.java:182)
	at
org.simpleframework.xml.core.CompositeInlineList.read(CompositeInlineList.java:159)
	at
org.simpleframework.xml.core.CompositeInlineList.read(CompositeInlineList.java:117)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.readObject(Composite.java:520)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:477)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.readElement(Composite.java:458)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.readElements(Composite.java:374)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:259)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:204)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:158)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.read(Composite.java:135)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Traverser.read(Traverser.java:78)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Persister.read(Persister.java:544)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Persister.read(Persister.java:526)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Persister.read(Persister.java:507)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Persister.read(Persister.java:489)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Persister.read(Persister.java:471)
	at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Persister.read(Persister.java:452)
	at
projectContainer.MeasurementProjectCollectionXMLAO.readXML(MeasurementProjectCollectionXMLAO.java:17)
	at testContainer.ProjectTreeTest.loadProjectNodes(ProjectTreeTest.java:34)
	at testContainer.TempMain.main(TempMain.java:11)    [/code]

So it is obvious that ther is a problem with parsing this new xml due to the
fact it has these three lines:

[code]   <permissions class="java.util.ArrayList" /> 
  <devices class="java.util.ArrayList" /> 
  <channels class="java.util.ArrayList" /> 
     [/code]

Things were fine when it was only parsing Strings, but there is a problem
with the parsing of the ArrayLists.
I'm not sure where to look to find the problem and how to solve it honestly.
If I were to guess I would say there will need to be a change made to:

[code]public class MeasurementProjectCollectionXMLAO {

	public MeasurementProjectCollection readXML(InputStream xml) { 
	    Serializer serializer = new Persister(); 

	    MeasurementProjectCollection measurementProjectCollection = null; 
	    try {
			measurementProjectCollection =
serializer.read(MeasurementProjectCollection.class, xml);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} 
	    try {
			xml.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	    return measurementProjectCollection; 
	}     [/code]


But I really do not know where.  If it is any help, here is the class that
calls the xml parser, and then loads the values to a list.  


[code]public void loadProjectNodes() {
				
		MeasurementProjectCollectionXMLAO access = new
MeasurementProjectCollectionXMLAO();
		ProjectHttpClient method = new ProjectHttpClient();
        MeasurementProjectCollection measurementProjectCollection = null;
   

			try {
				measurementProjectCollection = access.readXML(method.Response(null));
			} catch (Exception e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				e.printStackTrace();
			}


		//System.out.println("printing deviceCollection =
access.readXML(method.getResponseBodyAsStream(null));: " 
				//+ deviceCollection.toString());        
		
		for (MeasurementProject measurementProject :
measurementProjectCollection.getMeasurementProjects()){   
		    String x = measurementProject.getName();   
		    projectNameList.add(x); 
		    //System.out.println(ids);
		}		
		
	}

	public List&lt;String&gt; getProjectNameList() {
		//loadNodes();
		return projectNameList;
	}

	public void setProjectnameList(List&lt;String&gt; projectNameList) {
		this.projectNameList = projectNameList;
	}

	public void print(){
		System.out.println("Printing projectNameList values: "+projectNameList);
	}
}    [/code]

As soon as I try to call loadProjectNodes I get that exception though.

I have to get this working by Tuesday.  May seem like plenty of time but
with my track record on these kind of things...
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