Dozer deep mapping not working

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3018006

Question

I am trying to use dozer 4.1 to map between classes. I have a source class that looks like this:

    public class initRequest{
     protected String id;
     protected String[] details
}

I have a destination class that looks like this:

public class initResponse{
       protected String id;
       protected DetailsObject detObj;
}

public class DetailsObject{
 protected List<String>  details;
}

So essentially i want the string in the details array to be populated into the List in the Details object.

I have tried a mapping like this:

<mapping wildcard="true" >
  <class-a>initRequest</class-a>
  <class-b>initResponse</class-b>   
  <field>
    <a is-accessible="true">details</a>
    <b is-accessible="true">detObj.details</b>
  </field>
</mapping>

But I get this error:

Exception in thread "main" net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.MappingException: java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: detObj.details
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.util.MappingUtils.throwMappingException(MappingUtils.java:91)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.propertydescriptor.FieldPropertyDescriptor.<init>(FieldPropertyDescriptor.java:43)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.propertydescriptor.PropertyDescriptorFactory.getPropertyDescriptor(PropertyDescriptorFactory.java:53)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.fieldmap.FieldMap.getDestPropertyDescriptor(FieldMap.java:370)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.fieldmap.FieldMap.getDestFieldType(FieldMap.java:103)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.util.MappingsParser.processMappings(MappingsParser.java:95)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.util.CustomMappingsLoader.load(CustomMappingsLoader.java:77)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.DozerBeanMapper.loadCustomMappings(DozerBeanMapper.java:149)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.DozerBeanMapper.getMappingProcessor(DozerBeanMapper.java:132)
    at net.sf.dozer.util.mapping.DozerBeanMapper.map(DozerBeanMapper.java:94)

How can i map this so that it works?

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Solution 2

Problem solved...

  • is-accesible allows an object to be updated regardless of access modifier and presence of getters/setters (essential for objects generated using JAXB)

  • "dot" notation for deep mapping works to access nested objects

Combining the two is a feature that does not work in Dozer (maybe it does in a newer version)

solution... modify the xsd such that the deep mapping is not required. This is not my ideal solution but its better than writing a custom converter for every object

OTHER TIPS

This works for me. I am using 5.2.1 version

 <mapping wildcard="true" >
      <class-a>initRequest</class-a>
      <class-b>initResponse</class-b>   
      <field>
        <a>details</a>
        <b is-accessible="true">detObj.details</b>
      </field>
    </mapping>

Note that "is-accessable" is not required for . Hope it helps

In case of JaxB, use can download and use the plugin for generating the setters. Refer to this link for more details, https://jaxb2-commons.dev.java.net/collection-setter-injector/

I would guess that accessors (getter / setter) are missing. By the way I think that you'll also need to provide an empty constructor for DetailsObject so dozer can instanciate it.

<b is-accessible="true">detObj.details</b>

Should be replaced with

<b is-accessible="true">DetailsObject.details</b>

While it does seem you cannnot use the "is-accessible" and dot notation together another approach is to break your deep mapping into smaller mappings.

We ran into this situation with JAX-WS generated code. You have lists that have no setter methods and in our case were deeply nested. We found our solution by simply breaking the large deep mapping into smaller mappings that "walked" our way to what we wanted. I tried to explain this in my blog here:

http://btarlton.blogspot.com/2014/08/dozer-deep-nestinga-different-approach.html

But the trick is just walking the object tree by smaller mappings and using is-accessible="true" when necessary to access the list with no setter and using "this" as the property name to keep passing the source along.

Hope this helps!

To summarize there are following options for this issue 1) Use JaxB pluggin to enable setters as discussed by Naveen 2) Use is-accessible for such properties

I believe using first approach unnecessarily exposes setters for collections/lists as you can risk of setting them with null.

We decided to enable is-accessible for such fields (and not to entire class) to avoid any side effects.

I have discussed the solution at Dozer Mapping Class level is-accessible

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