Dealing With a Schema for Which There is No xmlrootelement

[jsexton0]

I understand why the xmlrootelement annotation is not always generated.  Just the same, I have to work with a schema for which JAXB does not (rightly) create the @XmlRootElement.  What I need to do is make a string out of the data, then get the JAXB object back out latter.

To create the String, I added a "wrapper" like this:

        marshaller.marshal(new JAXBElement(
                new QName("http://mydomain/schema/MyNamesape", "MyMessage"),
                MyMessageType.class, request), sw);

However, the code Netbeans creates to convert this String back to an XML object gives me a java.lang.ClassCastException on the resulting Object.  I've confirmed that the data (String) is intact, and is  what I expect.  

Is there a general approach to making a JAXB object with no @XmlRootElement pass through conversion to a String and back again?

Thanks
Thanks

[jsexton0]

Sorry for answering my own post, but maybe this will help someone else.  I don't know why I so frequently figure out something just after posting some place like this...

If I unmarshal to a JAXBElement instead of the type I'm looking for, then the JAXBElement's getValue() result can be cast to the complex type I started with and everyone is happy.  This makes perfect sense now that I see it.

Thanks again

jsexton0 wrote:

I understand why the xmlrootelement annotation is not always generated.  Just the same, I have to work with a schema for which JAXB does not (rightly) create the @XmlRootElement.  What I need to do is make a string out of the data, then get the JAXB object back out latter.

To create the String, I added a "wrapper" like this:

        marshaller.marshal(new JAXBElement(
                new QName("http://mydomain/schema/MyNamesape", "MyMessage"),
                MyMessageType.class, request), sw);

However, the code Netbeans creates to convert this String back to an XML object gives me a java.lang.ClassCastException on the resulting Object.  I've confirmed that the data (String) is intact, and is  what I expect.  

Is there a general approach to making a JAXB object with no @XmlRootElement pass through conversion to a String and back again?

Thanks
Thanks