[CXF-2500] JAXBContextInitializer does not support JAXBRIContext.ANNOTATION_READER property

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.4
• Fix Version/s: Invalid
• Component/s: JAXB Databinding
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stefan Fussenegger
• Created: 27/Oct/09 15:51
• Updated: 26/Oct/11 17:12
• Resolved: 09/Sep/11 18:43

Description

JAXBContextInitializer does not support JAXBRIContext.ANNOTATION_READER property which is used to specify a different RuntimeAnnotationReader. For instance, this property is required for JAXBIntroductions (http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/JAXBIntroductions) to work. While trying to use JAXBIntroductions, I've noticed that JAXBContextInitializer was ignoring @XmlTransient and therefore included a lot of unused classes - (marshalling and unmarshalling works as expected though)

Instead of calling (e.g.) clazz.getAnnotation(XmlJavaTypeAdapter.class) directly, runtimeAnnotationReader.getClassAnnotation(clazz, XmlJavaTypeAdapter.class, srcpos) should be used. I'll attach a patch containing yet untested (sorry, but I wasn't able to build from source) changes to JAXBContextInitializer.

If out-of-the-box support of JAXBRIContext.ANNOTATION_READER isn't possible, I'd really appreciate the possibility to plug in a custom implementation, e.g. using JAXBContextInitializer initializer = newJAXBContextInitializer(serviceInfo, contextClasses) in JAXBDataBinding.