MOXy JSON support - json

Question

I'm using EclipseLink's MOXy as the JAXB implementation in my RESTEasy project.MOXy's advanced functionality which has been brought by annotations like #XmlDiscriminatorNode & Value helped me a lot. Everything's working fine except one thing: JSON support. I'm using JettisonMappedContext of RESTEasy but unfortunately there're only instance variable fields belong to the abstract superclass in my JSON after marshalling.
#XmlRootElement
#XmlDiscriminatorNode("#type")
public abstract class Entity {
public Entity(){}
public Entity(String id){
this.id = id;
}
private String id;
#XmlElement
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
}
Subclass:
#XmlRootElement
#XmlDiscriminatorValue("photo")
public class Photo extends Entity{
private String thumbnail;
public Photo(){}
public Photo(String id) {
super(id);
}
public void setThumbnail(String thumbnail) {
this.thumbnail = thumbnail;
}
#XmlElement(name="thumbnail")
public String getThumbnail() {
return thumbnail;
}
}
XML after marshalling:
<object type="photo">
<id>photoId423423</id>
<thumbnail>http://dsadasadas.dsadas</thumbnail>
</object>
JSON after marshalling:
"object":{"id":"photoId423423"}
Is there any other way to achieve this?
Thank you.

Answer 1

UPDATE 2
EclipseLink 2.4 has been released with MOXy's JSON binding:
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/releases/2.4.php
UPDATE 1
Get a sneak peak of the native MOXy object-to-JSON binding being added in EclipseLink 2.4:
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/08/json-binding-with-eclipselink-moxy.html
Ensure that you have included a file named jaxb.properties file with your model classes that contains the following entry:
javax.xml.bind.context.factory=org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory
Without this entry the reference implementation will be used, and the EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) extensions will not appear in the resulting XML/JSON.
Using the #DescrimatorNode example from my blog, the XML produced would be:
<customer>
<contactInfo classifier="address-classifier">
<street>1 A Street</street>
</contactInfo>
</customer>
When I marshal leveraging Jettison:
StringWriter strWriter = new StringWriter();
MappedNamespaceConvention con = new MappedNamespaceConvention();
AbstractXMLStreamWriter w = new MappedXMLStreamWriter(con, strWriter);
marshaller.marshal(customer, w);
System.out.println(strWriter.toString());
Then I get the following JSON:
{"customer":{"contactInfo":{"#classifier":"address-classifier","street":"1 A Street"}}}
For more information on JAXB and JSON see:
http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2011/04/jaxb-and-json-via-jettison.html