Is it possible to bypass the error of excessive nesting with the xml structure using jaxb annotations?

Question

Java

Hello comrades!
It so happened that xml comes to the soap client with approximately the following piece

<...>
<linked_documents>
  <linked_documents_items>
    <linked_documents_item>
      <uid>232323</uid>
      <extension>pdf</extension>
      <size>16387013</size>
      <id>64623</id>
      <name>тест</name>
      <date/>
    </linked_documents_item>
    <linked_documents_item>
      <uid>3455131</uid>
      <extension>pdf</extension>
      <size>354617</size>
      <id>168413245345587</id>
      <name>Тестовое наименование файла в связанных документах</name>
      <date>1470000000</date>
    </linked_documents_item>
  </linked_documents_items>
</linked_documents>
<...>

and there is a POJO with a field
private List<LinkedDocument> linkedDocuments;
where the LinkedDocument contains the following fields:

private String id;
private UUID uid;
private String extension;
private int size;
private String name;
private Integer date;

Task: use Jaxb2Marshaller to unmarshal.
The problem is that the xml contains a redundant linked_documents_items tag and I don't know how to tell annotations to ignore this tag. I can't create wrappers in podjiks. Can you please tell me whether it is possible to solve this problem with annotations and how?

Answer 1

You can do it like this (even you need to, probably)

@XmlElementWrapper(name = "linked_documents_items")
@XmlElement(name = "linked_documents_item")
private List<LinkedDocument> linkedDocuments;