Wsdl2Java CXF - generating JAXBElement list instead of fields

Question

I have following entry in my xsd file:

<xsd:element name="isCaseCreationAllowedResponse">
    <xsd:complexType>
        <xsd:sequence>
            ....
            <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="operatorNote" type="xsd:string">
            </xsd:element>
            ....
            <xsd:sequence id="allowCaseWithNewContract">
                <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1" name="allowCaseWithNewContract" type="xsd:boolean">
                </xsd:element>
                <xsd:choice minOccurs="0">
                    <xsd:element name="validationError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                    <xsd:element name="internalError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                    <xsd:element name="businessError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                    <xsd:element name="externalError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                </xsd:choice>
            </xsd:sequence>
            ....
            <xsd:sequence id="allowCaseWithExistingContract">
                <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1" name="allowCaseWithExistingContract" type="xsd:boolean">
                </xsd:element>
                <xsd:choice minOccurs="0">
                    <xsd:element name="validationError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                    <xsd:element name="internalError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                    <xsd:element name="businessError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                    <xsd:element name="externalError" type="mnp:ErrorType"/>
                </xsd:choice>
             </xsd:sequence>
             ....
        </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

Because of that sequence in sequence generated java file looks like this:

public class OperationResponse {
    protected List<JAXBElement<?>> content;

    public List<JAXBElement<?>> getContent() {
        if (content == null) {
            content = new ArrayList<JAXBElement<?>>();
        }
        return this.content;
    } 
}

Is there any way to configure CXF/JAXB/JAXWS to generate fields in java class, not this not intuitive list.

WSDL can't be modified, so only wsdl2java can be configured. I tried xjc:simple in jaxb bindings, but it didn't work as I expect.

I'm using CXF 2.7.5 with maven cxf-codegen-plugin.

With xjc I had following annotation

<xsd:schema>
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:appinfo>
            <jaxb:globalBindings generateValueClass="false">
                <xjc:simple />
            </jaxb:globalBindings>
        </xsd:appinfo>
    </xsd:annotation>
</xsd:schema>

Generated class:

public class OperationResponse {
    protected String operatorNote;
    ....
    protected boolean allowCaseWithNewContract;
    @XmlElementRefs({
        @XmlElementRef for allowCaseWithExistingContract 
        @XmlElementRef for validationError and so on  
    })
    protected List<JAXBElement<?>>        validationErrorsAndAllowCaseWithExistingContractsAndInternalErrors;
}

Xjc with above configuration generated another JAXBelement list, that's why it didn't work as I expect (remove all list of JAXBElement and replace them with object containing proper fields).

EDIT

With following config:

<xsd:appinfo>
<jaxb:globalBindings generateElementProperty="false" fixedAttributeAsConstantProperty="true" choiceContentProperty="true">
</jaxb:globalBindings>
<jaxb:bindings>
    <jaxb:bindings node="//xsd:element[@name='isContractSigningAllowedResponse']/xsd:complexType/xsd:sequence/xsd:sequence[@id='allowStandardContract']">
        <jaxb:property name="allowStandardContractSequence"/>
    </jaxb:bindings>
    <jaxb:bindings node="//xsd:element[@name='isContractSigningAllowedResponse']/xsd:complexType/xsd:sequence/xsd:sequence[@id='allowOneVisitContract']">
        <jaxb:property name="allowOneVisitContractSequence" />
    </jaxb:bindings>
    <jaxb:bindings node="//xsd:element[@name='isCaseCreationAllowedResponse']/xsd:complexType/xsd:sequence/xsd:sequence[@id='allowCaseWithNewContract']">
        <jaxb:property name="allowCaseWithNewContractSequence"/>
    </jaxb:bindings>
    <jaxb:bindings node="//xsd:element[@name='isCaseCreationAllowedResponse']/xsd:complexType/xsd:sequence/xsd:sequence[@id='allowCaseWithExistingContract']">
        <jaxb:property name="allowCaseWithExistingContractSequence" />
    </jaxb:bindings>
</jaxb:bindings>
</xsd:appinfo>

I got something like this generated from wsdl2java:

public class IsCaseCreationAllowedResponse {

    @XmlElement(required = true)
    protected String msisdn;
    protected String operator;
    protected String operatorNote;
    protected String routingNumber;
    @XmlElementRefs({
        @XmlElementRef(name = "internalError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "externalError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "validationError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "businessError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "allowCaseWithNewContract", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class)
    })
    protected List<JAXBElement<?>> allowCaseWithNewContractSequence;
    @XmlElementRefs({
        @XmlElementRef(name = "validationError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "externalError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "businessError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "internalError", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class),
        @XmlElementRef(name = "allowCaseWithExistingContract", namespace = "http://playmobile.pl/common/mnpm/schema", type = JAXBElement.class)
    })
    protected List<JAXBElement<?>> allowCaseWithExistingContractSequence;
    protected String mnpmContractId;
    protected String contractNumber;
    protected String ccbsAccountId;
    protected Boolean fixedNumber;
    protected String description;
    @XmlElement(required = true)
    protected OperatorListType activeOperators;

}

I had to add some id's to inner sequences for proper bindings.

Is there any way to break allowCaseWithExistingContractSequence and allowCaseWithNewContractSequence lists into some objects with proper fields?

Can you tell us why xjc:simple was not working as you expected? Didn't you like the pluralization or did you get the same source code? — MystyxMac
I responded in main question, because of comment length limit — Tomek Zaremba

MystyxMac MystyxMac · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-02T13:27:14

I've the following settings in my bindings file and got rid of the JAXBElements and got nice fields :)

<jaxb:globalBindings generateElementProperty="false" fixedAttributeAsConstantProperty="true" choiceContentProperty="true">

If you don't want the choice elements in 1 field (...Or...Or...) then set it to false.

Wsdl2Java CXF - generating JAXBElement list instead of fields

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