How to serialize JAXB object to JSON with JAXB reference implementation?

Question

The project I\'m working on uses the JAXB reference implementation, i.e. classes are from the com.sun.xml.bind.v2.* packages.

I have a class User<

Answer 1

JAXB reference implementation does not support JSON, you need to add a package like Jackson or Moxy

Moxy

 //import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextProperties;

 Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<String, Object>(2);
 properties.put(JAXBContextProperties.MEDIA_TYPE, "application/json");
 properties.put(JAXBContextProperties.JSON_INCLUDE_ROOT, false);
 JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(new Class[] {User.class}, properties);

 Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
 marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
 marshaller.marshal(user, System.out);

See example here

Jackson

//import org.codehaus.jackson.map.AnnotationIntrospector;
//import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
//import org.codehaus.jackson.xc.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector;

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();  
AnnotationIntrospector introspector = new JaxbAnnotationIntrospector(mapper.getTypeFactory());
mapper.setAnnotationIntrospector(introspector);

String result = mapper.writeValueAsString(user);

See example here