How to add Jackson annotations to POJO generated from XSD by JAXB/XJC?

Question

I\'m generating POJOs from XSDs using JAXB. And I\'m using Jersey/Jackson to serialize the POJOs to JSONs. For the whole project, I\'ve created an ObjectMapper that has In

Answer 1

If you just want to add one annotation, consider using my JAXB2 Annotate Plugin. See, for instance, this example, specifically this bindings file.

In your case the bindings will look something like:

    
        @org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonSerialize
            (include=org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonSerialize.Inclusion.ALWAYS)
    

(Not tested, just a sketch.)

Few hints:

• Syntax is Java, but you have to use fully qualified class names.
• Jackson JAR must be present in the XJC classpath, otherwise your annotations won't be found.

SO disclaimer: I am the author of the mentioned plugin.