Question

I’m trying to retrieve an XML which has this format:

<roles>
 <role>manager</role>
 <role>driver</role>
</roles>

I use this classes and annotations:

public class Clazz(){

   private Role roles;

   get/set

}

public class Role (){

   private String role;

   get/set
}

With this annotations i’m able to retrieve only the first role, i.e.:

 <roles>
   <role>driver</role>
 </roles>

What should i change in order to take and the other role? The number of the role is not standard, sometimes could be one, other two and other 3.

Answer 1

Try this:

@XmlElement
private List<String> role;

Note that you have several <role> nodes so obviously you need a collection to hold all of them.