From: Pierre Radermecker <pradermecker_at_yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:58:18 -0700 (PDT)

Ok I believe my problem is due to the fact there is no way to specify a
different namespace in the base class for every subclass at runtime.

So I guess it is not that bad to provide a default getter in the base class,
then to explicitly override the getter and annoted it with @XmlElement whenever
you want the field to be serialized.

So my solution for this is alike:
public class AbstractEntity {
    private String createdBy;
    public String getCreatedBy() {
        return createdBy;
    }
}

@XmlRootElement()
public final class Enterprise extends AbstractEntity {
    @XmlElement()
    @Override public String getCreatedBy() {
        return super.getCreatedBy();
    }
}

Please let me know if there is a better path.


----- Original Message ----
From: Pierre Radermecker <pradermecker_at_yahoo.ca>
To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 4:57:13 PM
Subject: Jersey and schema prefix

Hi,

I have been searching for this finding bits of solutions but I don't seem to be
able to make it work somehow.

By default Jaxb will generate a schema prefix such as "ns2". Jaxb does not seem
to care at all about the prefix of my package-info file:

@XmlSchema(
        namespace = "http://myurl/ns/enterprise",
        xmlns = {_at_XmlNs(prefix = "ent", namespaceURI =
"http://myurl/ns/enterprise")},

       elementFormDefault= XmlNsForm.UNQUALIFIED
)

Is this a kind of bug ? Apparently there is a way to set a custom prefix using
com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.NamespacePrefixMapper but I have no idea how to do
that inside Jersey (with Guice).

I would not mind removing any kind of prefix completely. I can easily manage
this by removing the xmlns declaration above but as soon as I create an ancestor

to a resource, if the ancestor is not in the same package and if the ancestor
contains some @XmlElement declaration I have got a prefix generation ... I find
it a bit awkward to define "getters" in the subclass to avoid @XmlElement
declaration in the base class.

@XmlRootElement()
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.PUBLIC_MEMBER)
public final class Enterprise extends AbstractEntity {
       ....
}


public class AbstractEntity {
    @XmlElement
    private String createdBy;
}


Thanks for your help.

- Pierre