Would you mind posting some of that code to demonstrate the workaround?
Regards,
Broc
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM, NBW <emailnbw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a common complaint when using JAXB. To get around it we use a class
> that wraps / extends ArrayList<T> and has a getElements method that returns
> an Object[] then we use that to wrap the class what we want to serialize
> into JSON. Then in our JAXBContextResolver we add the class to our
> JSONJAXBContext and add the XmlRootElement name to an array that is set as
> the JSONJAXBContext.JSON_ARRAYS property.
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Matthew M. Boedicker <
> matthewm_at_boedicker.org> wrote:
>
>> When I send this JSON to my web service:
>>
>> {"input":[]}
>>
>> I get in my class a List<String> with one element that is an empty string.
>> What I would like is a List<String> with 0 elements. Is there any way to
>> make it unmarshal to that?
>>
>> This is the class that represents the JSON:
>>
>> @XmlRootElement
>> public class ListTest {
>>
>> public void setInput(List<String> val) {
>> this.input = val;
>> }
>> public List<String> getInput() {
>> return this.input;
>> }
>>
>> private List<String> input = new ArrayList<String>();
>> }
>>
>>
>