Question

I’m calling a web service using JAX-WS. I want to convert the content into a Java Object.

Here is the content portion of the web service response.

<header xmlns="">
  <store>
    <store_id>1</store_id>
    <store_name>ACME</store_name>
  </store>
</header>

I then created a class as follows:

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD) 
@XmlType(name = "", propOrder = {
        "store_id",
        "store_name" }) 
@XmlRootElement(name = "store") 
static public class store { 
   @XmlElement(name = "store_id", required = true)
   protected String store_id;

   @XmlElement(name = "store_name", required = true)
   protected String store_name;
}

My JAXB code:

List result = service.getService1Soap12().getDivisions().getContent();
ElementNSImpl e =(ElementNSImpl)result.get(0);
JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(store.class);
Unmarshaller um = context.createUnmarshaller();

JAXBElement element = (JAXBElement) um.unmarshal(e);
store customer = (store) element.getValue();

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"store"). Expected elements are <{http://tempuri.org/}header>

I’ve tried countless things to fix this. Any help would be great!

Answer 1

Try wrapping the DOM element in an instance of DOMSource and doing the following:

DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(e);
JAXBElement<store> element =
    unmarshaller.unmarshal(domSource, store.class);

By supplying the class you wish to unmarshal to, the JAXB impl does not need to determine the unmarshal class based on the root element.