Very easy to solve issue with SimpleXML. What i'm doing wrong?

Question

I'm working with Java and SimpleXML

I need to parse this XML file with SimpleXML:

<magazine title="N˙mero 1" id="1">
    <description>yutyutyu</description>
    <miniature>http://web.com/scripts/getImage.php?idMagazine=1&resource=miniature.jpg</miniature>
    <summary>2</summary>
    <pages>
        <page src="http://web.com/scripts/getImage.php?idMagazine=1&resource=page_001.jpg" id="1" thumbnail="http://web.com/scripts/getImage.php?idMagazine=1&resource=thumbnail_001.jpg">
            <areas>
                <area id="1">
                    <top>188</top>
                    <left>204</left>
                    <width>399</width>
                    <height>319</height>
                    <action type="openBrowser">http://www.web.com</action>
                </area>
                <area id="2">
                    <top>188</top>
                    <left>204</left>
                    <width>399</width>
                    <height>319</height>
                    <action type="openBrowser">http://www.web.com</action>
                </area>
            </areas>
        </page>
        <page src="http://web.com/scripts/getImage.php?idMagazine=1&resource=page_002.jpg" id="2" thumbnail="web.com/scripts/getImage.php?idMagazine=1&resource=thumbnail_002.jpg"/>
        <page src="http://web.com/scripts/getImage.php?idMagazine=1&resource=page_003.jpg" id="3" thumbnail="web.com/scripts/getImage.php?idMagazine=1&resource=thumbnail_003.jpg"/>
    </pages>    
</magazine>

I'm getting this exception:

03-22 16:02:35.072: WARN/System.err(1931): org.simpleframework.xml.core.ValueRequiredException: Unable to satisfy @org.simpleframework.xml.ElementList(data=false, empty=true, entry=, inline=false, name=, required=true, type=void) on field 'areas' public java.util.ArrayList com.Magazine.Page.areas for class com.Magazine.Page at line 1

Magazine has an array of pages, and each page has an array of areas, and each area has a action class, which has some more content. The problem must be on areas array, so it is in Page class.

@Root (name="magazine")
public class FullMagazine {
    @Attribute
    String title;
    @Attribute
    String id;
    @Element
    String description;
    @Element
    String miniature;
    @Element
    int summary;
    @ElementList
    public ArrayList<Page> pages;
    
    public String getTitle() {
        return title;
    }
    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }
    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }
    public Bitmap getMiniature() {
        return Util.getRemoteBitmap(miniature);
    }   
    
    public static FullMagazine Load(String xml){ 
        Serializer serializer = new Persister();
        try{
            return serializer.read(FullMagazine.class, xml);
        }catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
        return null; //si llega aquÌ es que ha fallado.
    }
}

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@Root
public class Page {
    @Attribute
    String src;
    @Attribute
    String id;
    @Attribute
    String thumbnail;
    @ElementList
    public ArrayList<Area> areas;
}

---

@Root
public class Area {
    @Attribute
    String id;  
    @Element
    int top;
    @Element
    int left;
    @Element
    int width;
    @Element
    int height;
    @Element
    Action action;
}

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@Root
public class Action {   
    @Attribute
    String type;    
    
    String action;
}

Answer 1

You must put required=false on the ArrayList of areas, some of the Pages of the XML doesn't have Areas

    @Root
public class Page {
    @Attribute
    String src;
    @Attribute
    String id;
    @Attribute
    String thumbnail;
    @ElementList (required=false)
    public ArrayList<Area> areas;
}