com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException

Question

I am trying to create java beans from xml. Below is my xml :

<CommunicationFile count="1">
    <Communication>
        <creationDate>2017-11-25</creationDate>
        <Document>
            <objectReference>111111</objectReference>
        </Document>
        ..........
    </Communication>
</CommunicationFile>

Here is my Java files. I created exact mapping to variables to the xml using jackson XML property :

@JacksonXmlRootElement(localName = "CommunicationFile")
public final class CommunicationFile {
@JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "count", isAttribute = true)
private String count;
@JacksonXmlElementWrapper(localName = "Communication")
private Communication[] communication;

    ..Standard setter and getters...

}
------

Below is the wrapper class for Communication . This class is for nested elements in CommunicatonFile .

public final class Communication {

    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "creationDate")
    private String creationDate;
    @JacksonXmlElementWrapper(localName = "Document")
    private Document document;
   .. standard setter and getters
}

Trying to map xml to pojo using jackson APIs:

XMLInputFactory f = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
XMLStreamReader sr = f.createXMLStreamReader(new FileInputStream("billing.xml"));

XmlMapper mapper = new XmlMapper();
sr.next(); // to point to <root>
sr.next(); // to point to root-element under root
CommunicationFile comm = mapper.readValue(sr, CommunicationFile.class);

Getting below error :

Exception in thread "main" com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "creationDate" (class com.pm.communication.CommunicationFile), not marked as ignorable (2 known properties: "Communication", "count"])
 at [Source: com.ibm.xml.xlxp2.api.wssec.WSSXMLInputFactory$WSSStreamReaderProxy@981206cc; line: -1, column: -1] (through reference chain: com.pm.communication.CommunicationFile["creationDate"])
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException.from(UnrecognizedPropertyException.java:51)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.reportUnknownProperty(DeserializationContext.java:839)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.StdDeserializer.handleUnknownProperty(StdDeserializer.java:1045)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.handleUnknownProperty(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1352)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.handleUnknownVanilla(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1330)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.vanillaDeserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:264)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:125)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3708)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:2071)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.readValue(XmlMapper.java:205)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.readValue(XmlMapper.java:180)
    at com.pm.docmaker.tpd.Parser.main(Parser.java:25)

I am not sure why jackson is looking for creationDate in CommunicationFile class. creationDate is in Communication Class. I am uing jackson 2.6.7 API's.

Answer 1

The XML in the question has an unwrapped collection of Communication elements. This has to be specified on the annotation. Eg:

@JacksonXmlElementWrapper(localName = "Communication", useWrapping = false)
private Communication[] communication;

Based on the current annotation the XML should be:

<CommunicationFile count="1">
  <Communication>
    <Communication>
      <creationDate>2017-11-25</creationDate>
      ...
    </Communication>
    <Communication>
      <creationDate>2018-07-11</creationDate>
      ...
    </Communication>
  </Communication>

Jackson is confused with the lack of a second level <Communication> and apparently/bizarrely considers creationDate to be part of CommunicationFile