Android Resources - Array of Objects

Question

I have an array of objects and want to represent them in an resource array. The class is defined like this:

class MyItem{
    private int id;
    private int price;
    private String name;
    private String desc;

    //getters and setters here
}

not sure about the syntax... but I tried this way:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <array name="Category01">
        <item>
            <array>
                <item name="name">Name</item>
                <item name="desc">Description</item>
                <item name="imageId">0000000</item>
                <item name="price">100</item>
            </array>
        </item>
    </array>
</resources>

not working... how to represent my array of objects in resources ?? thanks

gobernador · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-03 02:36:41Z

1

First of all, you need to clean up your XML: you've got two arrays representing the same thing. Try:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <array name="Category01">
        <item name="name">Name</item>
        <item name="desc">Description</item>
        <item name="imageId">0000000</item>
        <item name="price">100</item>
    </array>
</resources>

Now, the question whether you can create a resource array of POJO's, It is THEORETICALLY possible. If it isn't, in your getters and setters, convert all int's to Strings using Integer.toString(int) and Integer.parseInt(String).

answered Mar 3, 2012 at 2:36

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2 Comments

Ricky Over a year ago

That way wouldnt each item of the array be a field of my object ?

gobernador Over a year ago

OK, do you want them to be fields or XML? If you want these "variables" defined in an XML resource, then they won't be fields.

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