Facebook Photo class unable to deserialize a from database.

[Rob Blair]

Situation:
Got a spring-facebook Photo object (1.1.0 snapshot), then serialized to database.
(mongo, which uses a JSON like structure)
On de-serialize, it blows up because the constructor requires a field that is not in the serialized map:

private Photo(String id, Reference from, String link, String icon, Date createdTime, List<Image> images) {

does not find 'images' since it is not in the output JSON from a naive mapping.

the Photo object slices the images object into individual Image objects, which get stored in the map instead of the original List<Image>
Thus upon reanimation, we see

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No property images found for type class org.springframework.social.facebook.api.Photo
	at org.springframework.data.mapping.PropertyPath.<init>(PropertyPath.java:73)
	at org.springframework.data.mapping.PropertyPath.<init>(PropertyPath.java:92)
	at org.springframework.data.mapping.PropertyPath.create(PropertyPath.java:312)
	at org.springframework.data.mapping.PropertyPath.create(PropertyPath.java:294)
	at org.springframework.data.mapping.PropertyPath.from(PropertyPath.java:258)
	at org.springframework.data.mapping.PropertyPath.from(PropertyPath.java:239)
	at org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappedConstructor$MappedParameter.<init>(MappedConstructor.java:125)

Is there a clever way around this? Do I need to make a custom writer that repackages the individual images into an array, so the re-creation happens smoothly? Or should I make more changes to the spring-facebook jars?

[Annabows]

i wish i knew too!

[habuma]

Just hang tight...I'm soon going to be exposing the images array as a property on Photo, which should solve your problem (among others).

[olivialowrie]

Just hang tight...I'm soon going to be exposing the images array as a property on Photo, which should solve your problem (among others).

Can't wait to see your solution on this.