#38 StackOverflowError (recursion) during Exception serialization (PrefixResolver.resolvePrefix/getPrefix)

[Philipp]

Thanks for the great work. I'm using SimpleXML massively in my project. I'm getting a recursive exception when trying to serialize a n Exception object:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
  at org.simpleframework.xml.stream.PrefixResolver.resolvePrefix(PrefixResolver.java:183)
  at org.simpleframework.xml.stream.PrefixResolver.getPrefix(PrefixResolver.java:123)
  at org.simpleframework.xml.stream.PrefixResolver.resolvePrefix(PrefixResolver.java:183)
  at org.simpleframework.xml.stream.PrefixResolver.getPrefix(PrefixResolver.java:123)
  at org.simpleframework.xml.stream.PrefixResolver.resolvePrefix(PrefixResolver.java:183)
  ... (continues)

This code reproduces the exception:

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    SomeClass someClass = new SomeClass();
    someClass.exception = new Exception();

    StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
    new Persister().write(someClass, stringWriter);

    System.out.println(stringWriter.toString()); // <<< Bam!
  }

  public static class SomeClass {
    private Exception exception;        
  }
}

Related on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9676138/simple-xml-framework-weird-error/27620194#27620194

[Philipp]

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