Handling invalid enum values while doing JAXB Unmarshalling

Question

My Jaxb has created a Enum class based on the XML schema set up.

**enum Fruit {
    APPLE,ORANGE;
}**

I am using a SOAP UI to check my web

Answer 1

Short answer based on original reply. You need to do 2 things

1. implement custom adapter to raise and exception
2. add event handler to fail unmarshalling

Fruit.java defines and uses the adapter

package forum12147306;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;

@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(FruitAdapter.class)
public enum Fruit {

    APPLE, 
    ORANGE;

}

class FruitAdapter extends XmlAdapter {

    @Override
    public String marshal(Fruit fruit) throws Exception {
        return fruit.name();
    }

    @Override
    public Fruit unmarshal(String string) throws Exception {
        try {
            return Fruit.valueOf(string);
        } catch(Exception e) {
            throw new JAXBException(e);
        }
    }
}

The event handler for unmarshaller that fails parsing on error - i.e it returns false (you might need to decide when to fail and when not to fail)

    JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Root.class);
    Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
    unmarshaller.setEventHandler(new ValidationEventHandler() {
        @Override
        public boolean handleEvent(ValidationEvent validationEvent) {
             return false;
        }
    });