Java – how to serialize classes?

When I insert the list into mongodb, there is a problem:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't serialize class mongodb.Person
    at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder._putObjectField(BasicBSONEncoder.java:234)
    at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder.putIterable(BasicBSONEncoder.java:259)
    at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder._putObjectField(BasicBSONEncoder.java:198)
    at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder.putObject(BasicBSONEncoder.java:140)
    at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder.putObject(BasicBSONEncoder.java:86)
    at com.mongodb.DefaultDBEncoder.writeObject(DefaultDBEncoder.java:27)
    at com.mongodb.OutMessage.putObject(OutMessage.java:142)
    at com.mongodb.DBApiLayer$MyCollection.insert(DBApiLayer.java:252)
    at com.mongodb.DBApiLayer$MyCollection.insert(DBApiLayer.java:211)
    at com.mongodb.DBCollection.insert(DBCollection.java:57)
    at com.mongodb.DBCollection.insert(DBCollection.java:87)
    at com.mongodb.DBCollection.save(DBCollection.java:716)
    at com.mongodb.DBCollection.save(DBCollection.java:691)
    at mongodb.MongoDB.main(MongoDB.java:45)

The class person is defined as follows:

class Person{
    private String name;
    public Person(String name){
        this.name = name;
    }
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
}

The procedure is:

DBCollection coll = db.getCollection("test");
        DBObject record = new BasicDBObject();
        List<Person> persons= new ArrayList<Person>();
        persons.add(new Person("Jack"));
        record.put("person",persons);
        coll.save(record);

I can't find Google's answer, so please help me

Solution

You only need to implement the serializable interface in the person class

It is also good to define a serialVersionUID in your class

AFAIK, when creating a POJO class in Java, the class should be serializable. If it is to be transmitted through some streams, it has a default constructor and allows the use of getter and setter methods to access properties / fields

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