How generate XMLElementWrapper annotation with xjc and customized binding

Question

I\'m using JAXB and xjc to compile my XML Schema into Java classes. I do not want to manually edit this generated classes. I have xml schema like that:

Answer 1

First lets break up your schema so that there are no inner classes generated:

You'll still get extra classes, just not all in one file. Now you want to add a section to your build to use the jaxb-xew-plugin. I use Maven, so for me this looks like:

    org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2
    maven-jaxb2-plugin
    0.8.2
    
        
            
                generate
            
            
                
                    -no-header
                    -Xxew
                    -Xxew:instantiate lazy
                    -Xxew:delete
                
                
                    
                        com.github.jaxb-xew-plugin
                        jaxb-xew-plugin
                        1.0
                    
                
            
        
    

If you start using namespaces so that your generated classes have package names, leave off the -Xxew:delete flag, as there's a bug that I recently fixed where it was deleting objects it shouldn't. Alternatively, you could grab the code from github and use it as 1.1-SNAPSHOT.

When I do that I get the code generated that I think you're looking for:

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "Root", propOrder = {
    "items"
})
public class Root {

    @XmlElementWrapper(name = "items", required = true)
    @XmlElement(name = "item")
    protected List items;

    public List getItems() {
        if (items == null) {
            items = new ArrayList();
        }
        return items;
    }

    public void setItems(List items) {
        this.items = items;
    }

}