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Answer 1

+1 A:

Did you include a jaxb.properties file in with your entity classes?

Check out Blaise's answer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3073364/jaxb-mapping-cyclic-references-to-xml

Hope this helps. RG

reverendgreen 2010-07-22 23:13:15

From the stack trace, the jaxb.properties file appears to be in place.

Blaise Doughan 2010-07-23 16:04:14

Thanks for replying. Yes, I have a jaxb.properties file with these contents:# Specify that EclipseLink MOXy JAXB implementation should be used javax.xml.bind.context.factory=org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactoryI believe it is being read because the stack trace refers to:org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBMarshaller.marshal(JAXBMarshaller.java:271)I did see the other post, which is where I learned about MOXy and the @XmlInverseReference annotation which I used in my code.

sdoca 2010-07-23 16:25:36

Answer 2

+1 A:

We have had some offline discussion about this issue, and for the benefit of others that find this post below is the correct setup of using @XmlInverseReference at multiple levels:

Entity A

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.*;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import java.util.Set;

@Entity
@XmlRootElement
public class EntityA implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private String name;
    private Set<EntityB> entityBs;

    @Id
    @XmlAttribute
    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "entityABean")
    @XmlElement
    public Set<EntityB> getEntityBs() {
        return this.entityBs;
    }

    public void setEntityBs(Set<EntityB> entityBs) {
        this.entityBs = entityBs;
    }

}

Entity B

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.*;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlInverseReference;

import java.util.Set;

@Entity
@XmlRootElement
public class EntityB implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private String name;
    private Set<EntityC> entityCs;
    private EntityA entityABean;

    @Id
    @XmlAttribute
    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "EntityA")
    @XmlInverseReference(mappedBy = "entityBs")
    public EntityA getEntityABean() {
        return this.entityABean;
    }

    public void setEntityABean(EntityA entityABean) {
        this.entityABean = entityABean;
    }

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "entityBBean")
    @XmlElement
    public Set<EntityC> getEntityCs() {
        return this.entityCs;
    }

    public void setEntityCs(Set<EntityC> entityCs) {
        this.entityCs = entityCs;
    }
}

Entity C

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.*;

import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlInverseReference;

@Entity
public class EntityC implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private String name;
    private EntityB entityBBean;

    @Id
    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "EntityB")
    @XmlInverseReference(mappedBy = "entityCs")
    public EntityB getEntityBBean() {
        return this.entityBBean;
    }

    public void setEntityBBean(EntityB entityBBean) {
        this.entityBBean = entityBBean;
    }
}

Demo

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(EntityA.class);

        Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
        FileInputStream xml = new FileInputStream("src/test/jaxb/input.xml");
        EntityA a = (EntityA) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);

        for(EntityB b : a.getEntityBs()) {
            System.out.println(b.getEntityABean());
            for(EntityC c : b.getEntityCs()) {
                System.out.println(c.getEntityBBean());
            }
        }
        Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
        marshaller.marshal(a, System.out);
    }

}

Demo - Output

test.jaxb.EntityA@1292d26
test.jaxb.EntityB@196c1b0
test.jaxb.EntityB@196c1b0
test.jaxb.EntityA@1292d26
test.jaxb.EntityB@1e13d52
test.jaxb.EntityB@1e13d52

input.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entityA>
   <entityBs>
      <entityCs/>
      <entityCs/>
   </entityBs>
   <entityBs>
      <entityCs/>
      <entityCs/>
   </entityBs>
</entityA>

This issue is also being handled on the EclipseLink forums, for more information see:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=172544&start=0&

Below is another example of using @XmlInverseReference with a JPA model

http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/07/jpa-entities-to-xml-bidirectional.html

Blaise Doughan 2010-07-26 15:29:13

Further to the above, the NPE was caused from a Timestamp field on a grandchild class/element that was null. I extended XmlAdapter to handle marshalling of Timestamps and this threw the NPE.

sdoca 2010-07-29 22:13:44

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