i have the following classes which is marshalled as an XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<customer id="100">
<age>21</age>
<hobbies>
<hobby>
<cost>sd</cost>
<name>na</name>
</hobby>
<hobby>
<cost>sd</cost>
<name>nb</name>
</hobby>
</hobbies>
<name>test</name>
</customer>
However, when i tried to unmarshall, I can only create the customer object but not hobby, which returns null Am i doing something wrong here? The problem seems to be with the XML hierarchy?
package com.mytest.jxb;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElementRef;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElementWrapper;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso;
@XmlRootElement(name="customer")
@XmlSeeAlso({Hobby.class})
public class Customer {
String name;
int age;
int id;
@XmlElementRef
private List<Hobby> hobbyList = new ArrayList<Hobby>();
public Customer(){
//hobbyList = new ArrayList<Hobby>();
}
//@XmlElement
public String getName() {
return name;
}
@XmlElement
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
//@XmlElement
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
@XmlElement
public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
//@XmlAttribute
public int getId() {
return id;
}
@XmlAttribute
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public void addHobby(Hobby h) {
hobbyList.add(h);
}
@XmlElementWrapper(name="hobbies")
@XmlElement(name = "hobby")
public List<Hobby> getHobbies(){
return hobbyList;
}
}
package com.mytest.jxb;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
@XmlRootElement
class Hobby {
private String name;
private String cost;
public Hobby(){
}
public Hobby(String name, String cost){
this.name = name;
this.cost = cost;
}
//@XmlElement
public void setName(){
this.name = name;
}
@XmlElement
public String getName(){
return name;
}
//@XmlElement
public void setCost(){
this.cost = cost;
}
@XmlElement
public String getCost(){
return cost;
}
}
Having addHobby(Hobby h) is not enough for JAXB. Your class should be real POJO and should have void setHobbies(List<Hobby> hobbyList) { this.hobbyList = hobbyList; }. Also I think you can safely remove @XmlElementRef from hobbyList field.
ReplyDeleteEDIT: I have checked your classes and created the version which works OK:
package test;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElementRef;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElementWrapper;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringStyle;
@XmlRootElement(name = "customer")
public class Customer {
String name;
int age;
int id;
private List<Hobby> hobbyList = new ArrayList<Hobby>();
public Customer() {
}
@XmlElement
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
@XmlElement
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
@XmlAttribute
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public void addHobby(Hobby h) {
hobbyList.add(h);
}
@XmlElementWrapper(name = "hobbies")
@XmlElement(name = "hobby")
public List<Hobby> getHobbies() {
return hobbyList;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(this, ToStringStyle.SHORT_PREFIX_STYLE);
}
}
package test;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringStyle;
@XmlRootElement
class Hobby {
private String name;
private String cost;
public Hobby() {
}
public Hobby(String name, String cost) {
this.name = name;
this.cost = cost;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
@XmlElement
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setCost(String cost) {
this.cost = cost;
}
@XmlElement
public String getCost() {
return cost;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(this, ToStringStyle.SHORT_PREFIX_STYLE);
}
}