Unable to bind a collection when the parent mapping uses flexible="true".

[Nasir Ahmed]

Unable to bind a collection when the parent mapping has attribute flexible="true".
Getting error

All child components must define element names for flexible='true';

when including the flexible="true" at the binding level .

If flexible attribute is removed from parent element, then it parses but gives run-time error

XmlBindingService: Could not unmarshal the response. MappedClass [ com.ProvisionRequest ]
org.jibx.runtime.JiBXException: Expected "Order" start tag, found "namePrefix" start tag (line 1, col 1933, in UTF-8)

Below are the snippets of files used.

Request.xml<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ProvisioningRequest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="xxx " System="xxx "> <Header TimeStamp="08/29/2012 23:51:15-07:00"> <Sender Login="abs" Password="abs123" /> </Header> <Order> <Account MSISDN="12162339636" PrevMSISDN="12162339370" SubscriberNumber="N_NBI_CLE_1346180013000247615753" BAN="287245234993" /> ... <salesReps> ... </salesReps> <CustRegContactInfo_BASE> <namePrefix /> <firstName>SHANE</firstName> <middleName /> <lastName>LUTNER</lastName> <jobTitle>Unknown</jobTitle> <workPhoneNumber>9528424105</workPhoneNumber> <email /> <type>Authorized Order Placer</type> </CustRegContactInfo_BASE> <CustRegContactInfo_BASE> <namePrefix /> <firstName>SHANE</firstName> <middleName /> <lastName>LUTNER</lastName> <jobTitle>Unknown</jobTitle> <workPhoneNumber>9528424105</workPhoneNumber> <email /> <type>Day to Day</type> </CustRegContactInfo_BASE> ... <Products> <Product Category="ABS" Id="0238" Action="Modify" /> </Products> </Order> </ProvisioningRequest>

Binding xml
<mapping name="Order" class="com.envelope.OrderEnvelope" ordered="false" flexible="true"> <structure name="Account" field="account" value-style="attribute" ordered="false" flexible="true" usage="optional"> ... </structure> .......... ........... <collection get-method="getCustRegContactInfo" set-method="setCustRegContactInfo" item-type="com.envelope.CustomerContactInfoEnvelope" usage="optional" /> </mapping> <mapping name="CustRegContactInfo_BASE" class="com.envelope.CustomerContactInfoEnvelope" ordered="false" flexible="true"> <value name="namePrefix" field="contactNamePrefix" usage="optional"/> <value name="firstName" field="contactFirstName" usage="optional"/> <value name="middleName" field="contactMiddleName" usage="optional"/> <value name="lastName" field="contactLastName" usage="optional"/> <value name="jobTitle" field="contactJobTitle" usage="optional"/> <value name="workPhoneNumber" field="contactWorkPhoneNumber" usage="optional"/> <value name="email" field="contactEmail" usage="optional"/> <value name="type" field="contactType" usage="optional"/> </mapping>

com.envelope.OrderEnvelope.java

public class OrderEnvelope
{
    private AccountEnvelope account;
    private ArrayList custRegContactInfo = new ArrayList();
    ...
    public ArrayList getCustRegContactInfo()
    {
        return custRegContactInfo;
    }

    public void setCustRegContactInfo(ArrayList custRegContactInfo)
    {
        this.custRegContactInfo = custRegContactInfo;
    }
    ....
}

   

com.envelope.CustomerContactInfoEnvelope.java

public class CustomerContactInfoEnvelope
{
    private String contactNamePrefix;
    private String contactFirstName;
    private String contactMiddleName;
    private String contactLastName;
    private String contactJobTitle;
    private String contactWorkPhoneNumber;
    private String contactEmail;
    private String contactType;
    ...
    public String getContactNamePrefix()
    {
        return contactNamePrefix;
    }

    public void setContactNamePrefix(String custRegContactInfo)
    {
        this.contactNamePrefix= contactNamePrefix;
    }
    ....
}