Not my area, but I think you can register a custom
ContextResolver<JAXBContext> for the service that would allow you to create
the JAXBContext that is used. See:
http://cxf.547215.n5.nabble.com/cxf-rest-how-to-deal-with-xs-any-
td2281907.html#a2370139
for an example.
Dan
On Tuesday 10 August 2010 7:21:38 am Sudheer-3 wrote:
> We have implemented RESTFul service using Apache CXF. Used JSON as the
> communication between our GWT client and RESTFul server.
>
> Our DTOs are having structure Similar to below. Every DTO should extend
> BaseDTO.
>
> @XmlRootElement(name = "BaseDTO")
> public class BaseDTO implements Serializable {
>
> private String UUID;
> public String getUUID() {
> return UUID;
> }
> public void setUUID(String UUID) {
> this.UUID = UUID;
> }
> }
>
> @XmlRootElement(name = "Agent")
> public class Agent extends BaseDTO {
>
> private String description;
> public String getDescription() {
> return description;
> }
> public void setDescription(String description) {
> this.description = description;
> }
> }
>
> We have configured JSONProvider in spring-config.xml as below
>
> <jaxrs:server id="restServer" address="/services/">
> <jaxrs:serviceBeans>
> <ref bean="agentService"/>
> </jaxrs:serviceBeans>
> <jaxrs:extensionMappings>
> <entry key="feed" value="application/atom+xml"/>
> <entry key="json" value="application/json"/>
> <entry key="xml" value="application/xml"/>
> <entry key="html" value="text/html"/>
> </jaxrs:extensionMappings>
>
> <jaxrs:providers>
> <bean class="org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.provider.JSONProvider">
> <property name="writeXsiType" value="false" />
> <property name="readXsiType" value="false" />
> <property name="jaxbElementClassMap" value="" />
> </bean>
> </jaxrs:providers>
> </jaxrs:server>
>
>
> Methods from AgentService.java returns List<Agent> and we put this in a
> common response format defined below and constructs response using Response
> (javax.ws.rs.core.Response.ok(UIServiceResponse<T>)).
>
> @XmlRootElement(name = "UIServiceResponse")
> public class UIServiceResponse<T> {
>
> private UIException exception;
> private List<T> result;
>
> public UIException getException() {
> return exception;
> }
> public void setException(UIException exception) {
> this.exception = exception;
> }
> public List<T> getResult() {
> return result;
> }
> public void setResult(List<T> result) {
> this.result = result;
> }
> }
>
>
> The problem is, everything works fine if we include
> @XmlSeeAlso({Agent.class}) to UIServiceResponse. But when we remove we are
> asked to provide information about the return classes.
>
> This UIServiceResponse is used from multiple projects and having
> @XmlSeeAlso included for every DTO we create is difficult and not a good
> approach.
>
> Is there any approach that works without using @XmlSeeAlso and gets derived
> class data to client? Any help is really appreciated.
>
> Hope I did not confuse :)
> Thank you
--
Daniel Kulp
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http://dankulp.com/blog
