JAXB - Ignore element

Question

Is there any way to just ignore an element from Jaxb parsing? I have a large XML file, and if I could ignore one of the large, complex elements, then it would probably parse

Answer 1

Assuming your JAXB model looks like this:

@XmlRootElement(name="foo")
public class Foo {

   @XmlElement(name="element1")
   String element1;

   @XmlElement(name="element2")
   String element2;

   @XmlElement(name="bar")
   Bar bar;
}

then simply removing the bar field from Foo will skip the element in the input document.

Alternatively, annotated the field with @XmlTransient instead of @XmlElement, and it will also be skipped.