How to create a new item for a rosjava service list

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I'm using the git repositories pulled with wstool as described at:

               http://wiki.ros.org/rosjava/Tutorials/indigo/Source%20Installation

I added a new msg, rosjava/src/rosjava_test_msgs/msg/PhoneContact.msg

string last_name
string first_name  
string phone_number

I also added a new srv, SendContactsSmsMsg.srv

PhoneContact      contact0     
PhoneContact      contact1     
PhoneContact      contact2     
PhoneContact      contact3     
PhoneContact      contact4     
PhoneContact[]    contact_list
string            message   
---   
bool              status

I added a new test client called SendContactsSmsMsgClient.java to:

   ~/rosjava/src/rosjava_core/rosjava_tutorial_services/src/main/java/org/ros/rosjava_tutorial_services

I've Cut-N-Pasted a copy below and would like to discuss it.

I'd like to remove the contact1...contac4 above. I added them because I'm having difficulty creating a PhoneContact to add to the contact_list above.

The genjava git repo seems to be generating only interface files which can't create an instance. For example:

Line 116 below rosjava_test_msgs.PhoneContact contact = new PhoneContact();

doesn't work because the public definition is only an interface. I tried implementing my on Phone Contact (Lines 41...79) below but I'm getting problems with the Raw Message class not being public.

Seems there should be a simple solution to this problem. My HACK is to get instances from the request message, modify them, and add them to the list (See lines 123...140).

I'm just sending a list of phone contacts with a message and sending the msg via SMS messaging interfaces available in Android. This test program just send the RPC and decodes the RPC. I'd image that creating a RPC with a list/array has been done a long time ago and it's trivial to add a instance of my phone_contact msg.

What's the trick?

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    16  
    17  package org.ros.rosjava_tutorial_services;
    18  
    19  import org.ros.exception.RemoteException;
    20  import org.ros.exception.RosRuntimeException;
    21  import org.ros.exception.ServiceNotFoundException;
    22  import org.ros.namespace.GraphName;
    23  import org.ros.node.AbstractNodeMain;
    24  import org.ros.node.ConnectedNode;
    25  import org.ros.node.NodeMain;
    26  import org.ros.node.service.ServiceClient;
    27  import org.ros.node.service.ServiceResponseListener;
    28  
    29  import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
    30  import org.ros.exception.RosMessageRuntimeException;
    31  import org.ros.internal.message.context.MessageContext;
    32  import org.ros.internal.message.field.Field;
    33  import org.ros.internal.message.field.MessageFieldType;
    34  import org.ros.internal.message.field.MessageFields;
    35  import org.ros ...