Hello all,

i dnt know if this is a stupid question but i've been stuck on this problem for 4 days now.

I am trying to retrieve "date_from" and "employee_id" from "hr_holidays" table i am able to get the value of "date_to" but when it comes to "employee_id" i am having something like employee_id=[Ljava.lang.Object;@3681fe9a.

"employee_id" happens to be of type many2one referencing "id" in "hr_employee"table

This is my code :

private void getEmployeeDetails(String dbName) {

    try {

        XmlRpcClient client = new XmlRpcClient();
        XmlRpcClientConfigImpl loginConfig = new XmlRpcClientConfigImpl();
        loginConfig.setEnabledForExtensions(true);
        loginConfig.setServerURL(new URL("http",erp.getHost(),erp.getPort(),"/xmlrpc/common"));
        client.setConfig(loginConfig);

        Object [] loginParam = new Object []{dbName,admin.getName(),admin.getPassword()};
        Object adminUID = client.execute("login",loginParam);

        if (adminUID instanceof Integer){
               admin.setUID(Integer.valueOf(adminUID.toString()));
        }else{
            System.out.println("error");
        }

        //configure search 
        XmlRpcClientConfigImpl xmlRpcSearchConfig = new XmlRpcClientConfigImpl();
        xmlRpcSearchConfig.setEnabledForExtensions(true);
        xmlRpcSearchConfig.setServerURL(new URL("http",erp.getHost(),erp.getPort(),"/xmlrpc/object"));
        client.setConfig(xmlRpcSearchConfig);

        //search state = validate
        Object[] stateCon = {"state","=","validate"};

        ArrayList<Object> condiState = new ArrayList<Object>();
        condiState.add(stateCon);

        Object [] valId = search(client,dbName,admin.getUID(),admin.getPassword(),"hr.holidays",condiState);
        print("Validate State ids---->"+Arrays.toString(valId));
        print("--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");

        //read for employee ids who have state = validate
        ArrayList<Object>holiFields = new ArrayList();
        holiFields.add("employee_id");
        holiFields.add("date_to");

        ArrayList<Object>valIdLst=new ArrayList();
        valIdLst.addAll(Arrays.asList   (valId));

        Object [] empId = read(client,dbName,admin.getUID(),admin.getPassword(),"hr.holidays",valIdLst,holiFields);

        for(int i=0;i<empId.length;i++){
            print(empId[i]);
        }//for loop

    }catch ( XmlRpcException | MalformedURLException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(AutoMessageThread.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }catch(ClassCastException e){
        e.printStackTrace();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Password not valid","Error- password invalid",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
        System.exit(1);
    }

this is my read method

private Object [] read(XmlRpcClient xmlRpcLogin,String dbName,int uid,String password,String table,ArrayList<Object>ids,ArrayList<Object>fields) throws XmlRpcException{
    Vector<Object> readFunct = new Vector<Object>();
    readFunct.add(dbName); //Database name
    readFunct.add(uid);//uid of login user
    readFunct.add(password);//password of login user
    readFunct.add(table);//relation i.e. table to search
    readFunct.add("read");
    readFunct.add(ids);
    readFunct.add(fields);
    Object [] ob = (Object [])xmlRpcLogin.execute("execute",readFunct);
    return ob;
}//read method

When i run the codes i get result like this ;

{id=12, date_to=2013-02-08 17:00:00, employee_id=[Ljava.lang.Object;@404a6ddc} {id=3, date_to=2013-02-22 00:00:00, employee_id=[Ljava.lang.Object;@5672a77d}

Can anyone help me get the values of "employee_id" plz?

any hint towards the right track will be much appreciated.

regards