[betwixt] Missing value deserializing object

[Jacobo Sanchez]

Hello All

  I am using betwixt to serialize/deserialize a data type structure and
found test case where readed object is not as expected. As i am a newbie
using betwixt I would appreciate if someone could tell  me what i am doing
wrong.

I have wrote two sample classes to reproduce the issue in a simple way:

Class 'A' represents a  list of registers type
Class 'B' represents a register with a map of fields (only of type 'A' for
this expamle)

And this is the main code executed

           A rootA = new A();
           rootA.setName("RootA");
           B rootB = new B();
           rootB.setName("rootB");
           A a1 =  new A();
           a1.setName("A1");
           A a2 = new A();
           a2.setName("A2");
           B b1 =  new B();
           b1.setName("B1");

           rootA.setType(rootB);
           rootB.addField("fieldX", a1);
           a1.setType(b1);
//            b1.addField("fieldY", a2);

           storeObject(rootA);
           A readedObject = readObject(rootA.getName()+".xml");
           System.out.println(readedObject);


Which result is as expected:
          RootA[(rootB:{fieldX=A1[(B1:{})]})]

But if I uncomment the line "b1.addField("fieldY", a2);" then the 'fieldX'
of object 'rootB' is missing and the result is:
          RootA[(rootB:{})]

I have also noticed that with this same structure but with more objects not
only fields are lost but they are stored into
wrong objects.

XML generated:
 <root className="A" name="RootA">
   <type className="B" name="rootB">
     <fields>
       <entry>
         <key>fielX</key>
         <value className="A" name="A1">
           <type className="B" name="B1">
             <fields>
               <entry>
                 <key>fieldY</key>
                 <value className="A" name="A2"/>
               </entry>
             </fields>
           </type>
         </value>
       </entry>
     </fields>
   </type>
 </root>


////////////////////////////////////// CLASS A
public class A  {

   public B type;

   public String getClassName() {
       return A.class.getName();
   }

   public void setType(B type) {
       this.type = type;
   }

   public B getType() {
       return this.type;
   }

   private String name = null;

   public String getName() {
       return name;
   }
   public void setName(String name) {
       this.name = name;
   }
   public String toString() {
       return getName()+"["+(type!= null? type.toString(): "")+"]";
   }
}


////////////////////////////////////// CLASS B
public class B{

   public Map fields= new HashMap();


   public Map getFields() {
       return fields;
   }


   public void addField(String name, A value) {
       fields.put(name, value);
   }

   public String getClassName() {
       return B.class.getName();
   }

   private String name = null;

   public String getName() {
       return name;
   }

   public void setName(String name) {
       this.name = name;
   }

   public String toString() {
       return "("+getName()+":" + fields + ")";
   }
}


Hope you can help me.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Jacobo Sánchez