JAXB Marshalling Child Class Inheritance
I have an object (Department) that will be the root element. It has an aggregated object (Employee) that has two specializations (Manager and FactoryWorker). If I set Employee to one of the custom objects, then the attributes of the Employee object are sorted. Any advice would be appreciated.
eg.
@XmlRootElement(name="department")
class Department {
public Department() {}
private Employee employee;
public void setEmployee(final Employee val) {
this.employee = val;
}
}
class Employee {
private Long id;
public Employee() {}
//getters and setters
}
class Manager extends Employee {
public Manager() {}
private Integer numberOfProjects;
//getters and setters
}
class FactoryWorker extends Employee {
public FactoryWorker() {}
private Boolean worksNights;
//getters and setters
}
A snippet of code for displaying marshalling
Deparment department = new Department();
FactoryWorker factoryWorker = new FactoryWorker();
factoryWorker.setId(999);
factoryWorker.setWorksNights(true);
JAXBContext jaxBContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Department.class);
Marshaller jaxbMarshaller = jaxBContext.createMarshaller();
jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
jaxbMarshaller.marshal(department, System.out);
JAXB output: custom worker attribute factory does not exist. Just the values in the parent Employee.
<department>
<employee>
<id>999</id>
</employee>
</department>
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You will need to do the following:
@XmlRootElement(name="Department")
class Department {
public Department() {}
@XmlElements({
@XmlElement(name="Manager", type=Manager.class),
@XmlElement(name="FactoryWorker", type=FactoryWorker.class)
})
private Employee employee;
public void setEmployee(Employee val) {this.employee = val;}
}
which will output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Department>
<FactoryWorker>
<id>999</id>
<worksNights>true</worksNights>
</FactoryWorker>
</Department>
demo: http://ideone.com/Gw07mI
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