When you marshal a list in Castor to XML you typically get XML with a top level
node of <array-list>. However, if you have XML where the top level node is
<array-list> and you feed it to the unmarshaller, you get an error stating:
Caused by: org.exolab.castor.xml.MarshalException: The class for the root
element 'array-list' could not be found.{File: [not available]; line: 1;
column: 13}
at
org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.convertSAXExceptionToMarshalException(Unmarshaller.java:794)
at org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.unmarshal(Unmarshaller.java:760)
at
org.springframework.oxm.castor.CastorMarshaller.unmarshalInputStream(CastorMarshaller.java:386)
... 31 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: The class for the root element
'array-list' could not be found.
at
org.exolab.castor.xml.UnmarshalHandler.startElement(UnmarshalHandler.java:1607)
at
org.exolab.castor.xml.UnmarshalHandler.startElement(UnmarshalHandler.java:1436)
How would I get Castor to respect <array-list> (and essentially build me an
array list with the objects in the body of the tag)? I'm using Castor along
with Spring, so its really the Spring OXM version of the Castor (un)mashaller,
I mention this only because the marshaller is being used in a "generic" way,
thus I wouldn't really have insight on a case per case basis to know when to
create the unmarshaller by passing an ArrayList.class to it's constructor
Craig.
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