Re: JAXB unmarshalling - missing referenced objects

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Date:
Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:09:46 -0700 (PDT)
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On 6 Apr, 16:42, n...@arenybakk.com wrote:

*snip*

Appearently I missed something not checking out the XmlJavaTypeAdapter-
annotation. In the Javadocs on the XmlAdapter-class I found this
sentence: "Some Java types do not map naturally to a XML
representation, for example HashMap or other non JavaBean classes". If
this could be the reasons for my problem, why did marshalling work
just fine? Am I on the right track here? :)


Yep, this did the trick! Collections of type Set, among other things,
doesn't work off the bat with JAXB. An adapter has to be made and it
is annotated with XmlJavaTypeAdapter.

//Removed: @XmlElementWrapper(name="elements", nillable=false)
@XmlElementRef
@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(value=ElementXmlAdapter.class)
@ManyToMany( //JPA
  //...
)
public void getElements() {
  //...
}

---ElementXmlAdapter---

public class ElementXmlAdapter extends
javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter<ElementXmlContainer,Set<Element>>{

    @Override
    public Set<Element> unmarshal(ElementXmlContainer list) throws
Exception {
        return new HashSet<Element>(list.getElements());
    }

    @Override
    public ElementXmlContainer marshal(Set<Element> set) throws
Exception {
        return new ElementXmlContainer(new ArrayList<Element>(set));
    }

}

---ElementXmlContainer---

@XmlRootElement(name="elements")
public class ElementXmlContainer {

    private List<Element> elements;

    public ElementXmlContainer() {
    }

    public ElementXmlContainer(List<Element> elements) {
        this.elements = elements;
    }

    @XmlElementRef
    public List<Element> getElements() {
        return elements;
    }

    public void setElements(List<Element> elements) {
        this.elements = elements;
    }

}

I have several Sets around in my classes so I thought I'd try to make
generic classes for the two above. This didn't work, though, and I
believe it has to do with the fact that with Generics the type is set
at run-time, meaning there's no way of saying
ElementXmlAdapter<Element>.class and ElementXmlAdapter.class != new
ElementXmlAdapter<Element>().class. As far as I can see anyway,
correct me if I'm wrong. If anyone has a solution to this, I'd really
appriciate it! :)

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