Hi Rachel, it looks like your XML didn't make it through to the mailing list.
Regards Werner Rachel Wilson wrote: > [XML] > > I need to unmarshall a list of simple objects. I'd like iterate through them without having to create a wrapper java class merely to hold the list of objects in which I'm interested. > > Very similar to this poster: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02830.html > > And working almost exactly like this example: http://www.castor.org/how-to-map-a-list-at-root.html > > However after the unmarshalling step when I try and loop through what > I would expect to be PublicationImage objects in an ArrayList but instead I'm getting org.exolab.castor.types.AnyNode objects and therefore fails with a ClassCastException. > > I've tried all sorts of variations using location attributes in the mapping file or trying to map-to different nodes but it always falls over at the same step for the same reason. Here is a simplified version of what I have at the moment... > > > Here is the XML I'd like to unmarshall: > > > > > > > Here is my class: > > public class PublicationImage > { > private String articleId; > > public String getArticleId() > { > return articleId; > } > > public void setArticleId(String articleId) > { > this.articleId = articleId; > } > } > > here is my mapping file (castor-mapping-pubs.xml): > > > > > > > > > > > > And here is the unmarshalling java > > Unmarshaller unmarshaller = new Unmarshaller(ArrayList.class); > > Mapping map = new Mapping(); > map.loadMapping(getClass().getResource( "/castor-mapping-pubs.xml" )); > unmarshaller.setMapping(map); > > List pubs = (ArrayList) unmarshaller.unmarshal(fileReaderForMyXML); > > Iterator pubsIt = pubs.iterator(); > while (pubsIt.hasNext()) > { > // this step is failing with a ClassCastException > PublistsOutputImage pub = (PublistsOutputImage) pubsIt.next(); > } > > I'm using version 1.3 of the jars > > I cannot change the XML structure that i'm unmarshalling because it is a > response from a third party API. > > I hope you can point me at my no doubt silly mistake > > Rachel > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Messenger: Happy 10-Year Anniversary—get free winks and > emoticons. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
