How to Customize JAXB Marshalling if generating JAXB beans from XML
- by Charles O.
Hello,
I want to customize the marshalling of dates in JAXB. It's a variant of this already asked question. I would think I would use an XMLAdapter, as this answer questions specifies.
But I can't do that exactly, because I'm going the other way around, generating the JAXB beans from an .XSD -- I can't add annotations to the JAXB beans because they are generated code.
I've tried calling Marshaller.setAdapter(), but with no luck.
final Marshaller marshaller = getJaxbContext().createMarshaller();
marshaller.setSchema(kniSchema);
marshaller.setAdapter(new DateAdapter());
...
private static class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, XMLGregorianCalendar> {
@Override
public String marshal(XMLGregorianCalendar v) throws Exception {
return "hello"; //Just a test to see if it's working
}
@Override
public XMLGregorianCalendar unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
return null; // Don't care about this for now
}
}
Where the relevant part of my generated JAXB bean looks like this:
@XmlSchemaType(name = "date")
protected XMLGregorianCalendar activeSince;
When I do this, what the default date/XMLGregorianCalendar marshalling happens. It's as if I didn't do it all.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Charles
