[jdom-interest] Serialization issue

[Jason Hunter]

Fixed now in CVS.

-jh-

mtminner at earthlink.net wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I am having a Serialization issue. I am using beta 9. When I try to send a list of Elements retrieved by calling root.getChildren(String) over RMI, I get the following java.rmi.RemoteException:
> 
> error unmarshalling return; nested exception is: 
>         java.io.WriteAbortedException: writing aborted; java.io.NotSerializableException: org.jdom.ContentList$FilterList
> 
> I noticed in the TODO.txt that in March of 2002 there was this problem: 
> 
> http://lists.denveronline.net/lists/jdom-interest/2002-March/009857.html 
> 
> which generated this response: 
> 
> http://lists.denveronline.net/lists/jdom-interest/2002-March/009742.html
> 
> Having gone through the archives from March 2002 to October 2003, I can find no further mention of this (I did not read all the posts, just the subject lines - so the answer may be there). Can anybody help me with this? Is my problem different than the prior one? When I throw a println statement in just before the return, I verify that I do indeed have the correct Elements in the List. Here is the code I am using:
> 
>     public List getRecords(String elementName, String recordType) throws RemoteException {
>         List records = new ArrayList();
>         String fileName = recordType + ".xml";
> 
>         File file = new File(fileName);
>         if (file.exists()) {
>             try {
>                 SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
>                 Document doc = builder.build(new java.io.File(fileName));
>                 Element root = doc.getRootElement();
>                 records = root.getChildren(elementName);
>             }
>             catch (JDOMException je) {
>                 records = new ArrayList();
>                 String success = "ERROR: JDOMException\nCould not retrieve records\n";
>                 records.add(success);
>             }
>             catch (IOException ie) {
>                 records = new ArrayList();
>                 String success = "ERROR: IOException\nCould not retrieve records\n";
>                 records.add(success);
>             }
>         }
>         System.out.println("Hi " + records);
>         return records;
>     }
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