Hi Gautam,
gomzynewbie wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am an XStream newbie. I was trying to build a simple RESTLET service
> which returns an ArrayList<Person> where Person is defined as below.
>
> class Person
> {
> String name;
> int age;
> }
>
> Now while trying to convert it back to ArrayList<Person> using fromXML
> method it throws a com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException
> $Person
>
> How do I pass on the class information at runtime from the service to the
> client(which doesnt know the format of the XML returned by the service)?
> Do writing custom converters solve this..how?
>
> I tried to search for this particular problem but couldnt find one. :(
> Thanks in advance.
Serialization does normally not contain the class definition itself. The
class has to be on the client also to generate a new instance.
- Jörg
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