See @XmlElementRef, you can have JAXBElement<SomeElement> where you
can provide the name dynamically.
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Markus Karg <karg_at_quipsy.de> wrote:
> I have a possibly strange question: How can I dynamically set elements
> names?
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> I need to create this:
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> <SomeOuterElement>
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> <foo>val1</foo>
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> <bar>val2</bar>
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> </SomeOuterElement>
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> Looks easy, but the actual names "foo" and "bar" are not given statically,
> but must change with each instance at runtime.
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> Example:
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> @XmlRootElement public class SomeOuterElement {
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> @XmlElement public List<SomeInnerElement> content;
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> }
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> public class SomeInnerElement {
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> public name; // contains "foo" or "bar"
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> public value; // contains "val1" or "val2"
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> }
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> Neither "foo" nor "bar" do exist as classes, those are just Strings which
> have to get transported (don't ask why I want to do that -- it's part of
> WebDAV's crazy spec).
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> How to achieve that?
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> Thanks!
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> Markus