[Betwixt] Newbie question about loading lists

[Alister Pate]

I'm pretty new to Betwixt, so forgive me if this is an unbearably stupid
question:

I have a list of simple beans. Each bean contains a couple of simple
attributes (Strings) and a Collection of Strings:

Public class ReportDef
{
        private String displayName;
        private String reportName;
        private Collection fieldNames;
        public ReportDef(){}
}
(I have the requisite setters and getters, plus a method public void
addFieldName(String field))

I have successfully used betwixt to create my xml document where the top
level element (which is a list) is mapped to the name ReportDefinitions

 <ReportDefinitions> 
    <ReportDef displayName="audit" reportName="Audit">
      <fieldNames>
        <String>Date</String>
        <String>AsAtDate</String>
        <String>NMI</String>
        <String>NMIChecksum</String>
      </fieldNames>
    </ReportDef>
    <ReportDef displayName="a report" reportName="report">
      <fieldNames>
        <String>Date</String>
        <String>AsAtDate</String>
        <String>anotherString</String>
        <String>aFinalString</String>
      </fieldNames>
    </ReportDef>
</ReportDefinitions> 

I try to read it back in,  using the following code:

                BeanReader reader = new BeanReader();

reader.getXMLIntrospector().getConfiguration().setAttributesForPrimitive
s(true);
                reader.getBindingConfiguration().setMapIDs(false);
        
//              Set the custom mappings

reader.registerBeanClass("ReportDefinitions",ArrayList.class);
                reader.registerBeanClass("ReportDef",
com.agl.mdh.report.ReportDef.class);
                reader.registerBeanClass("fieldNames",
Collection.class);
//              reader.getBindingConfiguration().
        
//              Retrieve the list of elements from the config file
                ArrayList list = (ArrayList)reader.parse(in);

The attributes are correctly set, but the fieldNames element is not set,
remaining null.

What am I doing wrong?




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