JAXB Marshalling with null fields

Question

This is a pretty simple request, but I just didn\'t find a way to do it.

I\'m basically trying to set up a role in JAXB which says that whenever an null field is enc

Answer 1

As indicated in the other answer is invalid since it is not a valid date. I had a similar issue where I wanted to handle (same as ) specially. Since you cannot use null, you can use the default value mechanism in JAXB. The following will default the value if none is specified. You can through code detect this special date and handle this exception case.

@XmlElement(defaultValue="1970-01-01T00:00:00.0-00:00")

So it is possible to detected and empty date value but you just cannot use null to do it.