Description
The bigchaindb specs state that an asset can be
"an associative array containing exactly one key-value pair."
in the glossary an associative array is defined as
"A collection of key/value (or name/value) pairs such that each possible key appears at most once in the collection. In JavaScript (and JSON), all objects behave as associative arrays with string-valued keys. In Python and .NET, associative arrays are called dictionaries. In Java and Go, they are called maps. In Ruby, they are called hashes. See also: Wikipedia’s articles for Associative array and Comparison of programming languages (associative array)"
The specs do not appear to place limitations on the data types for the keys and values of an associative array's records
Yet, at this point in time, the java driver support only asset data of the following types:
String
String[]
TreeMap<String, String>
When trying to execute a transaction with asset data of type other than the above, the transaction fails with "malformed" error message
For my Android app, I need to be able to have transactions with at least data of the following types:
List/ArrayList
TreeMap<String, Custom class>
The same is true of metadata. I need to be able to have metada of types
List/ArrayList
TreeMap<String, Custom class>