XML (with namespace) to Object unmarshalling - namespaces

Question

I got following repsonse from a Web service call, I tried to unmarshal the same using JAXB to map it to a java class. I was getting unmarshal exception while doing so.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns0:QueryByLNResponse xmlns:ns0="UIS_CTMPeople_WS" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<ns0:getListValues>
<ns0:First_Name>Pradeep</ns0:First_Name>
<ns0:Internet_E-mail/>
<ns0:ManagersName/>
<ns0:Person_ID>PPL1</ns0:Person_ID>
<ns0:Last_Name>Srinivasa Reddy</ns0:Last_Name>
<ns0:Full_Name>Pradeep M Srinivasa Reddy</ns0:Full_Name>
</ns0:getListValues>
<ns0:getListValues>
<ns0:First_Name>Geeth </ns0:First_Name>
<ns0:Internet_E-mail>bas#yahoo.com</ns0:Internet_E-mail>
<ns0:ManagersName/>
<ns0:Person_ID>PPL2</ns0:Person_ID>
<ns0:Last_Name>Srinivasan</ns0:Last_Name>
<ns0:Full_Name>Geeth Srinivasan</ns0:Full_Name>
</ns0:getListValues>
</ns0:QueryByLNResponse>
I tried to unmarshal the above code using
public static Object xmlToObject(String xml, Class... objClass) throws Exception {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(objClass);
final Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
return unmarshaller.unmarshal(new StringReader(xml.toString()));
}
It was throwing following error
javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"UIS_CTMPeople_WS", local:"QueryByLNeResponse"). Expected elements are (none)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportUnexpectedChildElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext$DefaultRootLoader.childElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext._startElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext.startElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.SAXConnector.startElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal0(Unknown Source)
How can i unmarshalling this using JAXB ( xml to object ).

Answer 1

Below are a few items that should help:
NAMESPACES
You should use a the #XmlSchema annotation on the package-info class to specify the namespace qualification. Below is an example, you will need to change the package name to match your model.
package-info.java
#XmlSchema(
namespace = "UIS_CTMPeople_WS",
elementFormDefault = XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED)
package example;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNsForm;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema;
For More Information
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/08/jaxb-namespaces.html
ROOT ELEMENTS
It appears that you do not have any of your classes mapped with #XmlRootElement (or #XmlElementDecl). I would expect you to have something like the following:
QueryByLNResponse
package example;
#XmlRootElement(name="QueryByLNResponse")
public class QueryByLNResponse {
}
Alternatively you could specify the class you wish to unmarshal to, by using one of the unmarshal methods that take a Class parameter:
return unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml, QueryByLNResponse.class)
For More Information
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2012/07/jaxb-and-root-elements.html
PERFORMANCE
In your same code you are creating a new JAXBContext each time you do an unmarshal. JAXBContext is a thread safe object which can be created once and reused to improve performance.