RestTemplate / JAXB issue

[balderman]

Hi
I am using RestTemplate and JAXB as a message converter. (org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller)
I am calling:

		// I have a POJO named API which is generated by xjc from a xsd
                // RHEVM_API  is a URL
               API api =  restTemplate.getForObject(RHEVM_API, API.class);

As a result I get a ClassCastException telling that I try to cast JAXBElement to API.
After a debug session I understood that the 'getForObject' call return a JAXBElement which contains the API POJO inside. Calling the getValue() method of this JAXBelement return the API POJO.

		JAXBElement<?> jaxbElement = restTemplate.getForObject(RHEVM_API, JAXBElement.class);
		return (API)jaxbElement.getValue();

Looking at RestTemplate examples I see that no one has to do this 'trick'.
I know I am missing something here :-(
What is it?


Thanks

Avishay

[JerryBrando]

I also facing the same prob...

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[bytor99999]

Just out of curiosity. I thought the RestTemplate gives you a default HttpMessageConverter, that already know how to convert using JAXB, where all you needed was the JAXB jars on the classpath, and your entity to have JAXB mapping annotations and then everything just worked automatically.

That is probably what you see in the examples. They aren't changing out the HttpMessageConverter that the Template by default uses.

Try it out. I could be completely wrong, as I have very little experience with the RestTemplate.

Mark