Question

when serializing my resources on Jersey, I want to use namespaces in some cases.

Is there any way to customize the namespace prefixes on jersey?

Default:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<order xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   <price>123</price>
   <ns2:link rel="duh" href="/abc/123"/>
   <ns2:link rel="abc" href="/def/234"/>
</order>

I want something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<order xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   <price>123</price>
   <atom:link rel="duh" href="/abc/123"/>
   <atom:link rel="abc" href="/def/234"/>
</order>

Thanks,
Lucas

Answer 1

If you use the MOXy JAXB implementation you can control your prefixes using the @XmlSchema package level annotation:

@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(  
    xmlns = {  
          @javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNs(prefix = "atom", namespaceURI = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")  
            })  
    package org.example.domain;  

To use MOXy JAXB you need to have a file named jaxb.properties in with your model classes with the following entry:

javax.xml.bind.context.factory=org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory

For an example of using MOXy with Jersey see:

• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/08/creating-restful-web-service-part-35.html