I am implementing a firebase example as given in their documentations. I am facing this error:
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: No suitable constructor found for type [simple type, class com.XYZ.$BlogPost]: can not instantiate from JSON object (need to add/enable type information?)
Here is my code:
public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_user); Firebase.setAndroidContext(this); } @Override protected void onStart() { super.onStart(); // Get a reference to our posts Firebase ref = new Firebase("https://docs-examples.firebaseio.com/web/saving-data/fireblog/posts"); // Attach an listener to read the data at our posts reference ref.addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() { @Override public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot snapshot) { System.out.println("There are " + snapshot.getChildrenCount() + " blog posts"); for (DataSnapshot postSnapshot: snapshot.getChildren()) { BlogPost post = postSnapshot.getValue(BlogPost.class); System.out.println(post.getAuthor() + " - " + post.getTitle()); } } @Override public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) { System.out.println("The read failed: " + firebaseError.getMessage()); } }); } public class BlogPost { private String author; private String title; public BlogPost() { // empty default constructor, necessary for Firebase to be able to deserialize blog posts } public String getAuthor() { return author; } public String getTitle() { return title; } } }
I have gone through many questions on the same thing saying to include empty constructor necessary to deserialize the JSON. I have included that but still I am not able to resolve the issue. This is the JSON I am trying to deserialize:
{ "-JRHTHaIs-jNPLXOQivY":{ "author":"gracehop", "title":"Announcing COBOL, a New Programming Language" }, "-JRHTHaKuITFIhnj02kE":{ "author":"alanisawesome", "title":"The Turing Machine" } }
I don't know what I am missing in my code. Any help regrading this is appreciated.