Question

We are connecting to a third party using Jersey. We then want to extract the returned xml into our class. This is actually working fine except for one node in the xml that is in a subnode.
Here is the xml returned:

<response>  
...  
<langISO>en</langISO>  
<acquirerAmount>1000</acquirerAmount>  
<acquirerCurrency>GBP</acquirerCurrency>
<subXml>  
<authCode>122958</authCode>  
</subXml>  
</response>

Note that the authCode node is in a subnode (called subXml).

OurResponse myriadResponse = response.getEntity(OurResponse.class);

Here is our class, but it is not parsing out the authCode

package com.xxx;  

import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;  
import javax.ws.rs.Path;  
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;  
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;  

@XmlRootElement  
@Consumes("application/xml")  
public class OurResponse {  
    private String authCode;  

    @XmlElement(name = "subXml/authCode")  
    public String getAuthCode() {  
        return authCode;  
    }  

    @XmlElement(name = "subXml/authCode")  
    public void setAuthCode(String authCode) {  
        this.authCode = authCode;  
    }  
}

Answer 1

You have a couple different options:

Option 1 – MOXy JAXB & @XmlPath

You could use the MOXy JAXB implementation and the @XmlPath extension to achieve the desired result:

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlPath;

@XmlRootElement(name="response")
public class OurResponse {
    private String authCode;

    @XmlPath("subXml/authCode/text()")
    public String getAuthCode() {
        return authCode;
    }

    public void setAuthCode(String authCode) {
        this.authCode = authCode;
    }

}

For more information see:

• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/09/xpath-based-mapping-geocode-example.html

Option 2 – Any JAXB Impl and @XmlJavaTypeAdapter

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;

@XmlRootElement(name="response")
public class OurResponse {
    private String authCode;

    @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(AuthCodeAdapter.class)
    @XmlElement(name="subXml")
    public String getAuthCode() {
        return authCode;
    }

    public void setAuthCode(String authCode) {
        this.authCode = authCode;
    }

}

with

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;

public class AuthCodeAdapter extends XmlAdapter<SubXml, String> {

    @Override
    public String unmarshal(SubXml v) throws Exception {
        return v.getAuthCode();
    }

    @Override
    public SubXml marshal(String v) throws Exception {
        SubXml subXml = new SubXml();
        subXml.setAuthCode(v);
        return subXml;
    }

}

and

public class SubXml {

    private String authCode;

    public String getAuthCode() {
        return authCode;
    }

    public void setAuthCode(String authCode) {
        this.authCode = authCode;
    }

}

For more information see:

• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/07/xmladapter-jaxbs-secret-weapon.html