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Bug 328155

Summary:	JAXB Externalized Metadata: Support for type on xml-elements
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Rick Barkhouse <rick.barkhouse>
Component:	Eclipselink	Assignee:	Nobody - feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	david.mccann
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Rick Barkhouse

2010-10-19 12:33:35 EDT

In Dynamic JAXB we have no way of finding the type of the Java attribute
specified in an xml-elements element in OXM.  We will need to add a 'type' attribute to xml-elements, so that we can override the
java.lang.Object Java attribute that is initially present in Dynamic JAXB.

Comment 1 David McCann

2010-10-21 14:29:32 EDT

Since xml-elements is intended to be used on a collection, would you require container-type as well?

Comment 2 David McCann

2010-10-25 15:15:11 EDT

It appears as if we've already done container-type, so that is not an issue.  Type is however:  according to the spec, if the type is known then the XmlElements list has to be of size 1, and the rules for XmlElement mapping applies.  Type doesn't seem necessary in this case.

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2022-06-09 10:29:37 EDT

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