Jax-WS - To Remove Empty Tags from Request XML

Question

I\'m trying to consume a web service exposed by a provider. The Provider has a strict checking at his end that the request xml should not contain tags which don\'t have valu

Answer 1

This is a problem of the XML Serializer that you are using (If you did not do something special it should be JAXB).

The "null policy" of the serializer should be configurable, but I think is not possible with JAXB. If you use MOXy you can use XmlMarshalNullRepresentation.ABSENT_NODE to do not write the node if it is null. The implementation should be something like this:

class MyClass {

    // ... here are your other attributes

    @XmlElement (name = "strIpAddress")
    @XmlNullPolicy(nullRepresentationForXml = XmlMarshalNullRepresentation.ABSENT_NODE)
    String strIpAddress = null;

}

PS: Maybe you need to define also the emptyNodeRepresentsNull param of the @XmlNullPolicy.

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