We are using JAXB to generate Java classes and have encountered a few cases where generated plural method names are not correct. For example, where we expect getPhysicians
we are getting getPhysicien
. How would we customize how JAXB pluralizes specific methods?
The schema:
<xs:complexType name="physician">
<xs:sequence>
...
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="physicianList">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Physician"
type="physician"
minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
The generated Java code:
...
public class PhysicianList {
...
@XmlElement(name = "Physician")
protected List<Physician> physicien;
...
public List<Physician> getPhysicien() {
if (physicien == null) {
physicien = new ArrayList<Physician>();
}
return this.physicien;
}
Update
This has been answered by Blaise. However, I prefer not mixing concerns such as JAXB customizations in an XML schema. So for those of you with the same preference, here is a JAXB binding file that achieves the same thing as what Blaise suggested, keeping JAXB customization out of the schema:
<jaxb:bindings xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
version="2.0">
<jaxb:bindings schemaLocation="myschema.xsd">
<jaxb:bindings node="//xs:complexType[@name='physicianList']//xs:element[@name='Physician']">
<jaxb:property name="physicians"/>
</jaxb:bindings>
</jaxb:bindings>
</jaxb:bindings>
By default the following is generated for your schema fragment:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "physicianList", propOrder = {
"physician"
})
public class PhysicianList {
@XmlElement(name = "Physician")
protected List<Physician> physician;
public List<Physician> getPhysician() {
if (physician == null) {
physician = new ArrayList<Physician>();
}
return this.physician;
}
}
If you annotate your XML schema:
<xs:schema
xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
jaxb:version="2.1">
<xs:complexType name="physician">
<xs:sequence>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="physicianList">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Physician"
type="physician"
minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<jaxb:property name="physicians"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>
Then you can generate the desired class:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "physicianList", propOrder = {
"physicians"
})
public class PhysicianList {
@XmlElement(name = "Physician")
protected List<Physician> physicians;
public List<Physician> getPhysicians() {
if (physicians == null) {
physicians = new ArrayList<Physician>();
}
return this.physicians;
}
}