JAXB returning a JAXBElement instead of root element

Question

Usually JAXB works but it is not parsing my schema correctly or something as it should be putting XMLRootElement on my object and is not. I use this code to ry to unmarshal which fails and I have to resort to using the package as a String instead..

ProductsDomainResponseType resp = unmarshaller.unmarshall(ProductsDomainResponseType.class, strXmlInput);

This is the xsd

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns="http://www.cigna.com/acme/services/product/2012/03"
    xmlns:prd="http://www.cigna.com/IFPRetail/Product/0.1" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:outc="http://www.cigna.com/acme/domains/utility/outcome/2010/03"
    targetNamespace="http://www.cigna.com/acme/services/product/2012/03"
    elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">

    <xs:import namespace="http://www.cigna.com/IFPRetail/Product/0.1" schemaLocation="product.xsd" />
    <xs:import namespace="http://www.cigna.com/acme/domains/utility/outcome/2010/03" schemaLocation="InvocationOutcome_2010_03.xsd" />

    <xs:element name="productsDomainResponse" type="ProductsDomainResponseType">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:documentation>in case of error use invocationOutcome element from
                InvocationOutcome XSD in utility namespace</xs:documentation>
        </xs:annotation>
    </xs:element>

    <xs:complexType name="ProductsDomainResponseType">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:documentation>Products Domain XML Response</xs:documentation>
        </xs:annotation>
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element ref="outc:invocationOutcome" />
            <xs:element name="products" type="ProductType" minOccurs="0" />
        </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>

    <xs:complexType name="ProductType">
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element ref="prd:product" />

        </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>

</xs:schema>

Finally, my resulting object is missing the XmlRootElement. Any ideas what is going on?

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "ProductsDomainResponseType", propOrder = {
    "invocationOutcome",
    "products"
})
public class ProductsDomainResponseType {

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/819720/no-xmlrootelement-generated-by-jaxb — skaffman, Mar 20 '12 at 17:35
sweet, that post had the exact response to my question(I did not find that in my searches and I searched for quite some time on the issue) — Dean Hiller, Mar 22 '12 at 17:30

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '12 at 18:10

I had this problem on the project I'm working on now. Give the following a try. Specifically the last few lines should be helpful.

        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        InputStream is = post.getResponseBodyAsStream();
        Document doc = db.parse(is);
        DOMSource ds = new DOMSource(doc);
        JAXBContext responseContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(SearchEnrolledFundingResponse.class);
        Unmarshaller u = responseContext.createUnmarshaller();
        JAXBElement<SearchEnrolledFundingResponse> jaxbResponse = (JAXBElement<SearchEnrolledFundingResponse>) u.unmarshal(ds, SearchEnrolledFundingResponse.class);
        SearchEnrolledFundingResponse searchResponse = jaxbResponse.getValue();

man, that stinks, I don't get why JAXBElement has to be used....need to look into that someday. — Dean Hiller, May 02 '12 at 16:46

JAXB returning a JAXBElement instead of root element

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