Description Blaise Doughan 2010-10-25 14:36:53 EDT

If a property is annotated with the following (note the two @XmlElement annotations associated with PhoneNumber.class):

    @XmlElements(value = { 
            @XmlElement(name="address", 
                        type=Address.class),
            @XmlElement(name="phone-number", 
                        type=PhoneNumber.class),
            @XmlElement(name="fax-number", 
                        type=PhoneNumber.class),
            @XmlElement(name="note", 
                        type=String.class)
    })
    public Object contactInfo;

MOXy can successfully unmarshal documents containing both "phone-number" and "fax-number" elements.  When it comes to the marshal operation MOXy must choose one of the elements to use.

In order to allow the user to specify the element name/namespace the property could be defined as type JAXBElement.  Currently this does not work.  This scenario also does not appear to work in the JAXB RI.

    @XmlElements(value = { 
            @XmlElement(name="address", 
                        type=Address.class),
            @XmlElement(name="phone-number", 
                        type=PhoneNumber.class),
            @XmlElement(name="fax-number", 
                        type=PhoneNumber.class),
            @XmlElement(name="note", 
                        type=String.class)
    })
    public JAXBElement<Object> contactInfo;