First lets break up your schema so that there are no inner classes generated:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
elementFormDefault="qualified">
<xs:element name="root" type="Root" />
<xs:complexType name="Root">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="items" type="Items" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="Items">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="item" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>
You'll still get extra classes, just not all in one file. Now you want to add a section to your build to use the jaxb-xew-plugin
. I use Maven, so for me this looks like:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.8.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>generate</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<args>
<arg>-no-header</arg>
<arg>-Xxew</arg>
<arg>-Xxew:instantiate lazy</arg>
<arg>-Xxew:delete</arg>
</args>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.jaxb-xew-plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-xew-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
If you start using namespaces so that your generated classes have package names, leave off the -Xxew:delete
flag, as there's a bug that I recently fixed where it was deleting objects it shouldn't. Alternatively, you could grab the code from github and use it as 1.1-SNAPSHOT.
When I do that I get the code generated that I think you're looking for:
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "Root", propOrder = {
"items"
})
public class Root {
@XmlElementWrapper(name = "items", required = true)
@XmlElement(name = "item")
protected List<String> items;
public List<String> getItems() {
if (items == null) {
items = new ArrayList<String>();
}
return items;
}
public void setItems(List<String> items) {
this.items = items;
}
}