Package jakarta.xml.bind.annotation
Annotation Type XmlSeeAlso
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@Target(TYPE) @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface XmlSeeAlso
Instructs Jakarta XML Binding to also bind other classes when binding this class.Java makes it impractical/impossible to list all sub-classes of a given class. This often gets in a way of Jakarta XML Binding users, as it Jakarta XML Binding cannot automatically list up the classes that need to be known to
JAXBContext
.For example, with the following class definitions:
class Animal {} class Dog extends Animal {} class Cat extends Animal {}
The user would be required to create
JAXBContext
asJAXBContext.newInstance(Dog.class,Cat.class)
(Animal
will be automatically picked up sinceDog
andCat
refers to it.)XmlSeeAlso
annotation would allow you to write:@XmlSeeAlso({Dog.class,Cat.class}) class Animal {} class Dog extends Animal {} class Cat extends Animal {}
This would allow you to do
JAXBContext.newInstance(Animal.class)
. By the help of this annotation, Jakarta XML Binding implementations will be able to correctly bindDog
andCat
.- Since:
- 1.6, JAXB 2.1
- Author:
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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Element Detail
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value
Class<?>[] value
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