I'm trying to adapt a Map<Integer,String>
XmlAdapter
to one that supports Map<Object,Object>
. The approach is based on this article: XmlAdapter - JAXB's Secret Weapon
This line in the testing harness generates NullPointerException
:
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);
If I change the harness and MapAdapter/MapEntry to be T<Integer,String>
, the code works as expected.
What am I missing? Can the Object
type be serialized or does it need to be cast as another, less abstract class? If so, I would think that I would encounter this error in the marshal()
method, but it never seems to reach this point (at least in Netbean's debugger).
MapEntryType:
public class MyMapEntryType {
@XmlAttribute
public Object key;
@XmlValue
public Object value;
}
MapType:
public class MyMapType {
public List<MyMapEntryType> entry = new ArrayList<MyMapEntryType>();
}
MapAdapter:
public final class MyMapAdapter extends
XmlAdapter<MyMapType,Map<Object, Object>> {
@Override
public MyMapType marshal(Map<Object, Object> arg0) throws Exception {
MyMapType myMapType = new MyMapType();
for(Entry<Object, Object> entry : arg0.entrySet()) {
MyMapEntryType myMapEntryType = new MyMapEntryType();
myMapEntryType.key = entry.getKey();
myMapEntryType.value = entry.getValue();
myMapType.entry.add(myMapEntryType);
}
return myMapType;
}
@Override
public Map<Object, Object> unmarshal(MyMapType arg0) throws Exception {
HashMap<Object, Object> hashMap = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
for(MyMapEntryType myEntryType : arg0.entry) {
hashMap.put(myEntryType.key, myEntryType.value);
}
return hashMap;
}
}
Object to be marshalled/unmarshalled:
@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Foo {
@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(MyMapAdapter.class)
Map<Object, Object> map = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
public Map getMap() {
return map;
}
public void setMap(Map map) {
this.map = map;
}
}
Testing harness:
Map<Object,Object> xyz = new HashMap<Object,Object>();
xyz.put("key0", "value0");
xyz.put("key1", "value1");
Foo foo = new Foo();
foo.setMap(xyz);
//generates NullPointerException
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.marshal(foo, System.out);
Stack trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.TransducedAccessor.get(TransducedAccessor.java:154)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.property.ValueProperty.<init>(ValueProperty.java:66)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.property.PropertyFactory.create(PropertyFactory.java:95)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.ClassBeanInfoImpl.<init>(ClassBeanInfoImpl.java:145)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getOrCreate(JAXBContextImpl.java:479)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getOrCreate(JAXBContextImpl.java:498)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.property.ArrayElementProperty.<init>(ArrayElementProperty.java:97)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.property.ArrayElementNodeProperty.<init>(ArrayElementNodeProperty.java:47)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.property.PropertyFactory.create(PropertyFactory.java:113)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.ClassBeanInfoImpl.<init>(ClassBeanInfoImpl.java:145)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getOrCreate(JAXBContextImpl.java:479)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getOrCreate(JAXBContextImpl.java:498)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.property.SingleElementNodeProperty.<init>(SingleElementNodeProperty.java:90)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.property.PropertyFactory.create(PropertyFactory.java:113)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.ClassBeanInfoImpl.<init>(ClassBeanInfoImpl.java:145)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getOrCreate(JAXBContextImpl.java:479)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.<init>(JAXBContextImpl.java:305)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl$JAXBContextBuilder.build(JAXBContextImpl.java:1100)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:143)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:110)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:228)
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:215)
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:414)
at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:618)
at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:565)
I changed the Map from Map<Object,Object>
to Map<String,Object>
to better represent my needs (I also changed all of the internal objects to match this). I added @XmlAnyElement
and @XmlMixed
annotations to the Object property of the MyMapEntryType
class; I removed the @XmlValue
annotation.
When I debug the code, this line does NOT produce an error (hurray):
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(PropertyBag.class);
However, attempting to marshal this entry:
xyz.put("key0", 1);
Results in an error that reads:
unable to marshal type `java.lang.Integer` as an element because it is missing an `@XmlRootElement` annotation