So, lets say I have this xml with several namespaces.
<Envelope xmlns:pdi="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi" xmlns:ib="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib" xmlns="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope">
<Product>
<pdi:number>123456</pdi:number>
</Product>
<Instance>
<ib:serial>abcdefg</ib:serial>
</Instance>
</Envelope>
I'm trying to build a client for it. I have an Envelope POJO that's declared like this
@XmlRootElement(name ="Envelope", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public class Envelope
and inside, it has these attributes
@XmlElement(name="Product", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public Product getProduct(){...}
@XmlElement(name="Instance", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib")
public Instance getInstance(){...}
Also, the Product POJO looks like this:
@XmlRootElement(name="Product", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public class Product
and attribute
@XmlElement(name="pdi:number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public int getNumber(){...}
For some reason, I can't get the product number. I keep getting a request error. Am I handling the namespaces correctly, or am I missing something?
For this use case I would recommend leveraging the package level @XmlSchema
annotation to specify the namespace qualification.
package-info (forum14651918/package-info.java)
@XmlSchema(
namespace="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope",
elementFormDefault=XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED,
xmlns={
@XmlNs(namespaceURI = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope", prefix = ""),
@XmlNs(namespaceURI = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib", prefix = "ib"),
@XmlNs(namespaceURI = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi", prefix = "pdi")
}
)
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
Envelope (forum14651918/Envelope.java)
Since we have specified a namespace
and elementFormDefault
on the @XmlSchema
annotation, all the elements corresponding to the Envelope
class will be automatically qualified with the http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope
namespace.
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
@XmlRootElement(name="Envelope")
public class Envelope {
@XmlElement(name="Product")
private Product product;
@XmlElement(name="Instance")
private Instance instance;
}
Product (forum14651918/Product.java)
You can override the namespace for the Product
class using the @XmlType
annotation.
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
@XmlType(namespace="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public class Product {
private int number;
}
Instance (forum14651918/Instance.java)
You can override the namespace for the Instance
class using the @XmlType
annotation.
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
@XmlType(namespace="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib")
public class Instance {
private String serial;
}
Demo (forum14651918/Demo.java)
Below is some code you can run to prove that everything works.
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Envelope.class);
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
File xml = new File("src/forum14651918/input.xml");
Envelope envelope = (Envelope) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.marshal(envelope, System.out);
}
}
For More Information
- http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/08/jaxb-namespaces.html
- http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/11/jaxb-and-namespace-prefixes.html
- http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/06/using-jaxbs-xmlaccessortype-to.html
Try replacing name="pdi:number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi"
with name="number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi"
. Prefix is not needed.
What is more looking at the XML it seems that namespace for both Product
and Instance
is http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope
.
You should not need @XmlRootElement
annotation for Product
class. It is not a root element and is already configured on getProduct()
.
Full configuration that should be OK is:
@XmlRootElement(name ="Envelope", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public class Envelope {
@XmlElement(name="Product", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public Product getProduct(){...}
@XmlElement(name="Instance", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public Instance getInstance(){...}
}
public class Product {
@XmlElement(name="number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public int getNumber(){...}
}
public class Instance {
@XmlElement(name="serial", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib")
public String getSerial(){...}
}