RabbitMQ's "receiveAndConvert" thows a ClassCastException - rabbitmq

Question

I am new to RabbitMQ and I am trying to "receiveAndConvert" to a custom type of mine: Person.java.
Here is my producer:
public class Producer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext context = new GenericXmlApplicationContext("classpath:/applicationContext.xml");
AmqpTemplate template = context.getBean(AmqpTemplate.class);
Person person = new Person();
person.setAge(37);
person.setName("Julien");
template.convertAndSend("myqueue", person);
}
}
and here is my consumer:
public class Consumer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext context = new GenericXmlApplicationContext("classpath:/applicationContext.xml");
AmqpTemplate template = context.getBean(AmqpTemplate.class);
Person me = (Person) template.receiveAndConvert("myqueue");
System.out.println("Me: " + me.getName() + ":" + me.getAge());
}
}
My Person.java is just a POJO with a name and an age instance variables.
I get a ClassCastException as follows:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: [B cannot be cast to trc.suivi.amqp.Person
at trc.suivi.amqp.Consumer.main(Consumer.java:14)
Note that the Producer and Consumer classes are located in two different projects and I have copied/pasted the Person.java class over to the Consumer project.
My config is as follows:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:rabbit="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit/spring-rabbit-1.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
<rabbit:connection-factory id="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:template id="amqpTemplate" connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:admin connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:queue name="myqueue" />
</beans>

Answer 1

It just occurred to me that my Person.java class needs to implement Serializable. It now works.