#39 Reading into lists of beans with indexed mapping doesn't work

[James Bassett]

CsvDozerBeanReader can read into Lists of Strings using indexed mapping, but when you combine it with a cell processor (that creates a bean or Integer/Date etc) and use indexed mapping to read into a List it doesn't work.

This was discovered while trying to answer this StackOverflow question, in which a Person has a List of PersonAttributes. A custom cell processor created a PersonAttribute, and indexed mapping was used (e.g. attribs[0]) to map the attribute to the List of attributes in the Person. Dozer didn't map it correctly and each element in the attribute List was actually an empty List (not a PersonAttribute!!).

Curiously, when using no custom cell processor and using deep+indexed mapping (attribs[0].value) Dozer was able to map everything correctly.

[James Bassett]

It appears that Dozer needs a hint when doing this kind of mapping, so I've updated configureBeanMapping() to allow hint types to be specified.
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[James Bassett]

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-CsvDozerBeanReader can read into Lists of standard Java types (Lists of Strings, Integers, etc) using indexed mapping, but when you combine it with a cell processor (that creates a bean) and use indexed mapping to read into a List of beans it doesn't work.
+CsvDozerBeanReader can read into Lists of Strings using indexed mapping, but when you combine it with a cell processor (that creates a bean or Integer/Date etc) and use indexed mapping to read into a List it doesn't work.

 This was discovered while trying to answer [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/16111296/1068649) StackOverflow question, in which a `Person` has a List of `PersonAttributes`. A custom cell processor created a `PersonAttribute`, and indexed mapping was used (e.g. `attribs[0]`) to map the attribute to the List of attributes in the Person. Dozer didn't map it correctly and each element in the attribute List was actually an empty List (not a `PersonAttribute`!!).