Problems serializing an Object

[Anonymous]

I am new to XMLRPC and I am working a XMLRPC Servlet hosted on Jetty.
Right now I am having some problems serializing simple objects using the build in IntropectingSerializer.

I have a simple class:

public Person
{
  String name;
  String address;
  int age;
  List<String> parents;

  //constructor
  public Person(String name, String, address, int age, List<String> parents); 

  //getter methods
  String getName(){return this.name;}
  String getAddress(){return this.address;}
  String getAge(){return this.age;}
  List<String> getParents(){return parents;}
}

in the client I have:

List<String> parents = new ArrayList<String>()
parents.add("mary");
parents.add("jackson");
Person test = new Person("alvin", "24 lorong", 15,  parents);

XmlRpcStruct rs = (XmlRpcStruct)client.invoke("server.sendPerson", new Object {test});

when invoking the rpc method, I get the following errors:
Could not serialize property:
at redstone.xmlrpc.serializers.IntrospectingSerializer.serialize
at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcSerializer.serialize
at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.invoke
at Main.main(Main.java 53)

Correct me if I am wrong, shouldn't the introspectiveSerializer serialize the class into a xmlrpcStruct using the getter methods defined in the class. However I am getting errors with the serialize property. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

[Greger Olsson]

Could it be that your accessors (getters) are not public? I'll do a quick experiment myself here, but perhaps you could check on your end too by making them public so that they show up during introspection.

BR,
Greger.