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Prevent list from being wrapped by XML-element

Example code:

@XmlRootElement(name="user")
public class User implements Serializable
{
    private long userid;
    private IPerson person; 
}

Produces this output:

<user>
    <person>
        <firstname />
        <lastname />
    </person>
</user>

I'd like to prevent the 'person'-element from being generated, so that the person-fields will be directly included in the 'user'-element, like this:

<user>
    <firstname />
    <lastname />
</user>

Can JAXB/EclipseLink be configured to produce this output?

Solution

  • You can use EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy)'s @XmlPath extension to map this use case:

    @XmlRootElement(name="user")
public class User implements Serializable
{
    private long userid;

    @XmlPath(".")
    private IPerson person; 
}

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