marshall with xjc created nested classes
java, jaxb, xjc
Solution
The way JAXB normally handles multi valued properties is to provide just a getter and no setter for the `List<Whatever>`, which returns a mutable list - you're supposed to call the getter to retrieve an initially-empty list and then create the member objects for this list using `new` in the normal way and `add` them directly to the list. You can `new` a static nested class in exactly the same way as a top-level one.
Single-valued properties (not lists) should have been generated with both getter and setter.
Problem
``` <ProductInformation Context="GL"> <Assets> <Asset ID="assetID" UserTypeID="ID"> <Name>name</Name> <Reference ClassificationID="id"/> <Values> <Value AttributeID="ID">Value1</Value> <Value AttributeID="ID">Value2</Value> <MultiValue AttributeID="attributeID"> <Value>value3a</Value> <Value>value3b</Value> </MultiValue> </Values> </Asset> </Assets> <Products>....</Products> </ProductInformation> ``` I used this xml->xsd and xjc to create classes from it. Now I want to create my ProductInformation object,and marshall it. My problem is xjc create 3 classes and a objectfactory, and some nested classes inside ProductInformation. When I look at the avaliable methods I mostly see getters instead of setters. "Asset" class has no such methods like; ``` asset.setValues(List<Value> values) ``` Also I ended up writing funny code like this; ``` ProductInformation.Assets.Asset.Values.MultiValue multivalue=new ProductInformation.Assets.Asset.Values.MultiValue(); ``` Is this normal with Jaxb?