On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM, xtien <christine_at_christine.nl> wrote:
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> Wolfgang Laun-2 wrote:
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> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, xtien <christine_at_christine.nl> wrote:
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> >> The Jaxb Eclipse plugin generates @XmlElement annotations with the field
> >> names. In my app, it would be more convenient to have the annotations
> >> with
> >> the getter.
> >
> > Why? Perhaps you post what you want to achieve.
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> Does it matter?
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There might be another way of getting what you want, from the XmlElement
annotation.
In my code at some point I have a getter method. The code invokes the method
> on a class. With this invocation, the code needs the name of the element
> that's in the information from the XmlElement. If the naming of methods and
> fields were standard, I could simply get the annotation from the field by
> creating the field name from the getter name and get the fields annotation.
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The JAXB plugin just uses xjc to generate classes from an XML schema, and
this
produces, for a field called fooBar, a getter getFooBar (or isFooBar for
boolean).
Weird names *might* muddle the issue, but basically it's quite simple.
> However, the classes are genereated based on xml from a system that does
> not
> conform to standard field names. I am not in control of that system. It's
> hard to create a field name from a getter name, so that's why it would be
> convenient to have the annotation with the getter.
> Actually, all I want to do is retrieve the original element name in a piece
> of code where I have the getter method but not the field that it goes with.
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>
Anyway, assuming you get the @XmlElement annotation, what's in there that
is so desirable to have in an application? (I admit, I'm *very* curious ;-)
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