How can I make my OrmLite entity a Parcelable object?

[Matt Huggins]

I'd like to treat one of my entities as Parcelable.  I'm not sure how to approach parceling ForeignCollections, unfortunately.  Should I simply convert them to arrays or ArrayLists and parcel them as TypedArrays?  If I do this, how do I convert them back to ForeignCollections when I convert from a Parcel back into my entity?  Thanks!

[Matt Huggins]

It's also worth noting that I tried NOT parceling ForeignCollection objects, in hopes that they would automatically be requeried, but instead I ended up with a NullPointerException.

[Matt Huggins]

Okay, I solved this in case anyone else has the same question.  I changed all my ForeignCollection objects to Collection objects (while still maintaining the ForeignCollectionField annotations).  I also created these two methods for parceling/unparceling collections:

protected final static <T extends Entity> void parcelCollection(final Parcel out, final Collection<T> collection) {

    if (collection != null) {

        out.writeInt(collection.size());

        out.writeTypedList(new ArrayList<T>(collection));

    } else {

        out.writeInt(-1);

    }

}

protected final static <T extends Entity> Collection<T> unparcelCollection(final Parcel in, final Creator<T> creator) {

    final int size = in.readInt();

    if (size >= 0) {

        final List<T> list = new ArrayList<T>(size);

        in.readTypedList(list, creator);

        return list;

    } else {

        return null;

    }

}

I'm not sure if there are any repercussions to using a Collection instead of a ForeignCollection, but I haven't experienced any issues in my app so far. 

On Saturday, June 1, 2013 1:56:34 PM UTC-6, Matt Huggins wrote: