JAXB @XmlElements to have minOccurs = 1

Question

So I want to have a list to be annotated with @XmlElements like the following

@XmlElements(
        {
            @XmlElement(name = \"Apple\", type = Apple         


        

Answer 1

I suggest to check:

@XmlElements(
    {
        @XmlElement(name = "Apple", type = Apple.class, required = true),
        @XmlElement(name = "Orange", type = Orange.class, required = true),
        @XmlElement(name = "Mango", type = Mango.class, required = true)
    }
)

Answer 2

Assuming that Apple, Orange, and Mango are subclasses of Fruit you may want to annotate the entries property with @XmlElementRef which corresponds to substitution groups in XML schema, rather than @XmlElements which corresponds to the concept of choice.

@XmlElementRef
public List<Fruit> getEntries() {
        return fruitList;
}

This assumes that the Apple, Orange, and Mango classes extend the Fruit class, and are annotated with @XmlRootElement

@XmlRootElement
public class Apple extends Fruit {
   ...
}

For More Information

• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/11/jaxb-and-inheritance-using-substitution.html
• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/10/jaxb-and-xsd-choice-xmlelements.html