Consider the known employee/manager relation ship
public class Employee
{
public Employee manager;
public List<Employee> employees;
}
what i want is a way to marshall an employee such that all the child employees will be marshalled, the parent manager employee also be marshalled. without an infinite cycle loop.
As explained here, you can use the @XmlIDREF annotation to avoid cyclic references.
Add a unique identifier to your employee and annotate it with @XmlID, and annotate your possible cyclic references with @XmlIDREF :
@XmlRootElement
class Employee {
@XmlID string id;
@XmlIDREF Employee manager;
@XmlIDREF List<Employee> _employees;
}
