JAXB generated classes: Ignore intermediate classes

Question

Here is a extract from my XML schema:

<xsd:complexType name="MyType">
    <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:element name="Numbers">
            <xsd:complexType>
                <xsd:sequence>
                    <xsd:element name="Number" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="5" type="xsd:decimal"/>
                </xsd:sequence>
            </xsd:complexType>
        </xsd:element>
    </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

JAXB generates me the following class:

public class MyType {
    protected MyType.Numbers numbers;

    public static class Numbers {
        protected List<BigDecimal> number;
    }
}

But I'd like to ignore this intermediate class and have something like:

public class MyType {
    protected List<BigDecimal> number;
}

Is that somehow possible?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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Yes, that is possible with JAXB only with the help of external plugins, as this modification is actually change of the model. Have a look at @XmlElementWrapper plugin.

Note: The same question was already asked on this forum (How generate XMLElementWrapper annotation, Dealing with JAXB Collections, JAXB List Tag creating inner class). Please, use search first.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Jan 04 '12 at 15:49

dma_k

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Thanks. But it doesn't work for me. `numbers` is now a List as expected. But the getter looks like this: `public Numbers getNumbers{ return numbers; }` So the generated classes won't compile... – Sebi Jan 05 '12 at 08:04
There might be a bug in the plugin :( Sorry, I can't do much with that, as I don't own that plugin. Please, publish in your question the generated code: at least it will help somebody else who will get the same problem. – dma_k Jan 05 '12 at 16:44
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The problem was that some of my XML elements contain unterscores in the name. E.g. `last_name`. For certain reasons I had to enable `underscoreBinding="asCharInWord"`. The result was that the variable was named `lastName` and the getter `getLast_name`. So the plugin was not able to match the variable with its getter and setter methods. – Sebi Jan 06 '12 at 08:06
Good that is helped you. If you can publish the erroneous code + XSD, I would appreciate. – dma_k Jan 06 '12 at 11:59

JAXB generated classes: Ignore intermediate classes

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