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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 21

which spring ws jaxb annotation to change xml element name

I am using a sping ws endpoint with jaxb marshalling/unmarshalling to proudce a list of Organisation objects (our local type). The endpoint is SOAP 1.1, no parameters supplied on the request message.

I understand JAXB doesn't handle lists very well, so I use a wrapper class.

@XmlRootElement(name="orgResponse", namespace=....)
public class OrganisationListWrapper {

    private ArrayList<Organisation> organisationList;

    public getOrganisationList() {
        return organisationList;
    }

    public setOrganisationList(ArrayList<Organisation> organisationList) {
        this.organisationList = organisationList;
    }
}

The endpoint....

@PayloadRoot(localPart=.... namespace=....)
@ResponsePayload
public OrganisationListWrapper getOrganisations() {
    OrganisationListWrapper wrapper = new OrganisationListWrapper();
    wrapper.setOrganisationList(.... call service layer get list ....);
    return wrapper;
}

This works fine and I get a SOAP payload with 

<orgResponse>
    <organisationList>
        ... contents of organisation 1
    </organisationList>
    <organisationList>
        ...  comtents of organisation 2
    </organisationList>
     .... etc ....
</orgResponse>

The Organisation class is not JAXB annotated. It is part of a large list of pre-existing classes that are being exposed through web services for the first time. Trying to get by without going in and annotating them all by hand.

I was able to override the name OrganisationWrapper with orgResponse in the XmlRootElement annotation. I would like to override the organisationList name in the child element with organisation but haven't been able to find an annotation that does this.

I can replace the array list name with organisation and it will work fine, but our coding standard here required us to put List on the end of our list names. I would like to try and stick to that. I have tried XmlElement, but that produced a jaxb exception.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1832

Answers (1)

bdoughan
bdoughan

Reputation: 149017

Because JAXB default the access type to PUBLIC_MEMBER, make sure you annotate the property (getter) and not the field: 

@XmlElement(name="organisation")
public getOrganisationList() {
    return organisationList;
}

If you want to annotate the field then add the following annotation to your class:

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

Upvotes: 1

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