> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm currently trying to implement
> 'system.profile.getCustomOptions' (and
> > 'system.profile.setCustomOptions' but I haven't started
> that one yet).
> > The problem I have is in the data I'm getting back.
> >
> > My Perl test code is basically just:
> > ---
> > my $retval =
> $client->call('system.profile.getCustomOptions', $session,
> > $ARGV[0]);
> > print Dumper $retval;
> > ---
> >
> > And the data I'm getting back is
> > ---
> > $VAR1 = [
> > {
> > 'value' =>
> >
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 139,argume
> > nts=blah
> > ]'
> > },
> > {
> > 'value' =>
> >
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 140,argume
> > nts=blahblah
> > ]'
> > <<SystemProfileHandler.java>> }
> > ];
> > ---
> >
> > I think what I want is a array of hashes, something like:
> > ---
> > $VAR1 = [
> > {
> > 'id' => '139',
> > 'arguments' => 'blah'
> > ]'
> > },
> > {
> > 'id' => '140',
> > 'arguments' => 'blahblah'
> > ]'
> > }
> > ];
> > ---
> >
> > The .java file is attached.
> >
> > Could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> The objects are not being serialized correctly. Whenever you return
> an object from the API there needs to be a valid serializer for that
> class. Casting a SortedSet as an Object is incorrect. A SortedSet is
> effectively a sorted List without duplicates, so what you should
> return is a List, it might require transformation of the SortedSet
> into a List. You will also need a Serializer for each of the class
> object types within the List. For example,if the List contains
> KickstartCommands, you need a custom serializer for those.
>
> The way Serializers work is they are registered at startup with the
> XmlRpcServer for a given Class. When the serialization occurs, it
> looks up the class being returned and looks for a matching serializer,
> the serializers then call other serializers for the classes they do
> not know how to handle. It continues down this path until the entire
> object graph has been properly serialized or until a serializer deems
> itself as the final one and no longer passes the data to any other
> serializers.
>
> In short, you need to create a custom serializer :)
>
> jesus
>
Hi Jesus
Thanks for this. The learning continues :)
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