I would like to use the play.data.Form function for Play! Framework, but I have a problem with the following classes. Can someone tell me if there is a way to inform forms about nested paths with such inheritance structures? So far, I have been trying to get it to work with Json. Here is the digest of my code.
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_EMPTY)
public class ContactParam implements IEntityParam<Contact> {
private Long id;
private String name;
private List<ContactFieldParam> contacts;
private Long companyId;
}
with information defined as follows:
@JsonSubTypes({
@Type(EmailFieldParam.class),
@Type(PhoneFieldParam.class),
@Type(SocialNetworkFieldParam.class),
@Type(AddressFieldParam.class),
@Type(WebsiteUrlFieldParam.class)
})
@JsonTypeInfo(use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME, include = JsonTypeInfo.As.PROPERTY, property = "ctype")
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_EMPTY)
public abstract class ContactFieldParam implements IEntityParam<ContactField> {
private Long id;
//standard getters and setters
}
and, of course, all subclasses are implemented (with a completely different set of fields) and have an open default constructor. I tested this structure with Json (Jackson by itself and a wrapped implementation of Json on the game system) and it works. The problem is that I'm trying to use it in my controller by declaringForm<ContactParam>
private static final Form<ContactParam> contactForm = Form.form(ContactParam.class);
public static Result myAction() {
Form<ContactParam> form = contactForm.bindFromRequest();
if(form.hasErrors){
}else{
}
}
, InstanciationException, , newInstance() Class<ContactFieldParam>. , , - , Form (DataBinder BeanWrapperImpl).
org.springframework.beans.InvalidPropertyException: Invalid property 'contacts[0]' of bean class [crud.params.contact.ContactParam]: Illegal attempt to get property 'contacts' threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.NullValueInNestedPathException: Invalid property 'contacts' of bean class [crud.params.contact.ContactParam]: Could not instantiate property type [crud.params.contact.fields.ContactFieldParam] to auto-grow nested property path: java.lang.InstantiationException
[...]
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.NullValueInNestedPathException: Invalid property 'contacts' of bean class [crud.params.contact.ContactParam]: Could not instantiate property type [crud.params.contact.fields.ContactFieldParam] to auto-grow nested property path: java.lang.InstantiationException
at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.newValue(BeanWrapperImpl.java:633)