Marshalling in java using JAXB

Question

I need to make an xml like below using JAXB, But i can't get <front> and <back> under the <result> tag.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<output>
   <option>abc</option>
   <refid>8789</refid>
   <response>
      <responsecode>1234</responsecode>
      <responsedetails>xyz</responsedetails>
   </response>
   <result>
      <front>
         <containimage>Yes</ontainimage>
         <containdetail>No</containdetail>
      </front>
      <back>
         <ontainimage>Yes</ontainimage>
         <containdetail>Yes</containdetail>
      </back>
   </result>
</output>

I am able to get the <response> but not the <result> I am using something like -

@XmlElementWrapper(name = "result")
@XmlElement
public ArrayList<Front> getFront() {
    return front;
}
@XmlElementWrapper(name = "result")
@XmlElement
public ArrayList<Back> getBack() {
    return back;
}

and get the xml as

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <output>
       <option>abc</option>
       <refid>8789</refid>
       <response>
          <responsecode>1234</responsecode>
          <responsedetails>xyz</responsedetails>
       </response>
       <result>
          <front>
             <containimage>Yes</ontainimage>
             <containdetail>No</containdetail>
          </front>
        </result>
        <result>
          <back>
             <ontainimage>Yes</ontainimage>
             <containdetail>Yes</containdetail>
          </back>
       </result>
    </output>

I need <front> and <back> inside <result> . Please help

Answer 1

I suppose you problem is in the Output class, or by addind a new result instance to our output object... By the way, do you manually create the java binding, or lat JaxB generates it from an the schema?

I propose you the following steps:

1. create a schema (XSD file) that match your XML
2. let JaxB generate the java binding
3. write the File

For the Schema, I created the following one (correcting the spelling of the tag "containimage")

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:element name="output">
    <xsd:complexType>
        <xsd:sequence>
            <xsd:element name="option" type="xsd:string" />
            <xsd:element name="refid" type="xsd:string" />
            <xsd:element name="response">
                <xsd:complexType>
                    <xsd:sequence>
                        <xsd:element name="responsecode" type="xsd:string" />
                        <xsd:element name="responsedetails" type="xsd:string" />
                    </xsd:sequence>
                </xsd:complexType>
            </xsd:element>
            <xsd:element name="result" maxOccurs="1">
                <xsd:complexType>
                    <xsd:sequence>
                        <xsd:element name="front" type="resultType" />
                        <xsd:element name="back" type="resultType" />
                    </xsd:sequence>
                </xsd:complexType>
            </xsd:element>
        </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

<xsd:complexType name="resultType">
    <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:element name="containimage" type="xsd:string" />
        <xsd:element name="containdetail" type="xsd:string" />
    </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

Then, I asked JaxB generate the Java binding (wizzard in Eclipse), that generates me 3 classes: ObjectFactory , Output and ResultType classes.

Finally, I can write the output file:

package stackoverflow35769423;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;

import stackoverflow35769423.jaxb.ObjectFactory;
import stackoverflow35769423.jaxb.Output;
import stackoverflow35769423.jaxb.ResultType;

public class CreateResultFile {

    public static void main(String[] args) {    
        try {
            (new CreateResultFile()).writeFile();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (JAXBException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private void writeFile() throws JAXBException, FileNotFoundException {  
        OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("files" + File.separator + "output.xml");
        ObjectFactory factory = new ObjectFactory();
        JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(factory.getClass().getPackage().getName());
        Marshaller jaxbMarshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
        jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);

        Output output = factory.createOutput();
        output.setOption("abc");
        output.setRefid("8789");

        Output.Response reponse = factory.createOutputResponse();
        reponse.setResponsecode("1234");
        reponse.setResponsedetails("xyz");
        output.setResponse(reponse);

        Output.Result result = factory.createOutputResult();
        ResultType resultFront = factory.createResultType();
        resultFront.setContainimage("Yes");
        resultFront.setContaindetail("No");

        ResultType resultBack = factory.createResultType();
        resultBack.setContainimage("Yes");
        resultBack.setContaindetail("Yes");

        result.setFront(resultFront);
        result.setBack(resultBack);
        output.setResult(result);

        jaxbMarshaller.marshal(output, os);
    }
}

Et Voilà :)