JAXB Mapping cyclic references to XML

Question

I have an object graph that contains a cycle. How do I get JAXB to handle this? I tried using the @XmlTransient annotation in the child class but the JAXB mar

Answer 1

XMLTransient almost always works for cycles. It might be a possibility that you have XMLTransient on the field level but you have not specified XMLAccessorType to be XmlAccessType.Field. If you don't specify anything the default is XmlAccessType.Property - or your getters. I have experienced Jaxb picking xml elements from getters from a class that I missed the accessor type annotations on and still work perfectly fine.