“xsi:type” and “xmlns:xsi” in generated xml by JAXB

Question

I use JAXB to create folder and files hierarchy

My model:

@XmlRootElement
public class Root {

    @XmlAttribute
    private String path;

    @XmlE         


        

Answer 1

In your Dir class you are not specifying the type of your collection this is why JAXB is adding the xsi:type attributes.

You have:

@XmlElement(name = "dir")
private ArrayList dirs;

If your ArrayList is going to contain instances of Dir then you can do:

@XmlElement(name = "dir")
private ArrayList<Dir> dirs = null;

If for some reason you don't want to specify the type on the collection then you can do it in the @XmlElement annotation:

@XmlElement(name = "dir", type=Dir.class)
private ArrayList dirs = null;