Robospice stores an object that extends an ArrayList in a database through Ormlite

Background

I am trying to modify Robospice Ormlite Sample Code which I successfully executed. The only changes I made are that I have a JSON response containing an array of objects.

I created 2 classes:

public class Foos extends ArrayList<Foo>
public class Foo

I had initial problems since my JSON response was a clean array without an external container. I read through google groups that the way to solve this is to create a “fake” class (Foos) that extends ArrayList. This led to the following code:

public class FooRequest extends SpringAndroidSpiceRequest< Foos > {

   private String baseUrl;

    public FooRequest() {
        super( Foos.class );
        this.baseUrl = "http://somewhere.com/jsonurl";
    }

    @Override
    public Foos loadDataFromNetwork() throws RestClientException {
        Ln.d( "Call web service " + baseUrl );
        return getRestTemplate().getForObject( baseUrl, Foos.class );
    }
}

Then I created the following utility code, adapted from the examples.

public class MySpiceService extends SpringAndroidSpiceService {

    private static final int WEBSERVICES_TIMEOUT = 10000;

    @Override
    public CacheManager createCacheManager( Application application ) {
        CacheManager cacheManager = new CacheManager();
        List< Class< ? >> classCollection = new ArrayList< Class< ? >>();

        // add persisted classes to class collection
        classCollection.add( Foos.class );

        // init
        RoboSpiceDatabaseHelper databaseHelper = new RoboSpiceDatabaseHelper( application, "sample_database.db", 2 );
        InDatabaseObjectPersisterFactory inDatabaseObjectPersisterFactory = new InDatabaseObjectPersisterFactory( application, databaseHelper, classCollection );
        cacheManager.addPersister( inDatabaseObjectPersisterFactory );
        return cacheManager;
    }

    @Override
    public RestTemplate createRestTemplate() {
        RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
        // set timeout for requests

        HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory httpRequestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
        httpRequestFactory.setReadTimeout( WEBSERVICES_TIMEOUT );
        httpRequestFactory.setConnectTimeout( WEBSERVICES_TIMEOUT );
        restTemplate.setRequestFactory( httpRequestFactory );

        // web services support xml responses
        MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter jsonConverter = new MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter();
        FormHttpMessageConverter formHttpMessageConverter = new FormHttpMessageConverter();
        StringHttpMessageConverter stringHttpMessageConverter = new StringHttpMessageConverter();
        final List< HttpMessageConverter< ? >> listHttpMessageConverters = restTemplate.getMessageConverters();

        listHttpMessageConverters.add( jsonConverter );
        listHttpMessageConverters.add( formHttpMessageConverter );
        listHttpMessageConverters.add( stringHttpMessageConverter );
        restTemplate.setMessageConverters( listHttpMessageConverters );
        return restTemplate;
    }

}

Problem

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    public final class MyRequestListener implements RequestListener< Foos > {

        @Override
        public void onRequestFailure( SpiceException spiceException ) {
            Toast.makeText( SampleSpiceActivity.this, "failure", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();
        }

        @Override
        public void onRequestSuccess( final Articles result ) {
            Toast.makeText( SampleSpiceActivity.this, "success", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();

        }
    }

Foo Ormlite, , , . :

@DatabaseTable
public class Foo {

    @DatabaseField(generatedId = true)
    private int id;

    @DatabaseField
    private String someText;

}

, Foos, , Foo. !