How to use Parcel in Android?

Ah, I finally found the problem. There were two in fact.

1. CREATOR must be public, not protected. But more importantly,
2. You must call setDataPosition(0) after unmarshalling your data.

Here is the revised, working code:

public void testFoo() {
    final Foo orig = new Foo("blah blah");
    final Parcel p1 = Parcel.obtain();
    final Parcel p2 = Parcel.obtain();
    final byte[] bytes;
    final Foo result;

    try {
        p1.writeValue(orig);
        bytes = p1.marshall();

        // Check to make sure that the byte stream seems to contain a Parcelable
        assertEquals(4, bytes[0]); // Parcel.VAL_PARCELABLE

        p2.unmarshall(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
        p2.setDataPosition(0);
        result = (Foo) p2.readValue(Foo.class.getClassLoader());

    } finally {
        p1.recycle();
        p2.recycle();
    }


    assertNotNull(result);
    assertEquals( orig.str, result.str );

}

protected static class Foo implements Parcelable {
    public static final Parcelable.Creator<Foo> CREATOR = new Parcelable.Creator<Foo>() {
        public Foo createFromParcel(Parcel source) {
            final Foo f = new Foo();
            f.str = (String) source.readValue(Foo.class.getClassLoader());
            return f;
        }

        public Foo[] newArray(int size) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }

    };


    public String str;

    public Foo() {
    }

    public Foo( String s ) {
        str = s;
    }

    public int describeContents() {
        return 0;
    }

    public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int ignored) {
        dest.writeValue(str);
    }


}