failed to deserialize all interleaved elements for list

POJO:

@JacksonXmlRootElement(localName = "a")
public class A {
    public static class B {
        @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "id")
        public String id;
    }

    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "b")
    @JacksonXmlElementWrapper(useWrapping = false)
    public List<B> bList;
}

XML:

<a>
   <b><id>id1</id></b>
   <any-tag/>
   <b><id>id2</id></b>
</a>

It’s expected to get two elements ‘id1’ and ‘id2’ in bList, but only ‘id2’ is available after deserialisation.

related links:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29087335/fasterxml-jackson-dataformat-xml-deserialize-mixed-ordered-tag
• http://jackson-users.ning.com/forum/topics/parsing-xml-nodes-in-mixed-order

[cowtowncoder]

@pswulius one thing that 2.9 will add in jackson-databind is @JsonMerge like so:

public class Container {
   @JsonMerge(OptBoolean.TRUE)
   public List<Point> points = new ArrayList<>();
}

which would not reset value, so multiple segments would effectively be merged. I have not tried that with XML module but in theory it should work. Before 2.9 you could still add “setPoints(List<> p) { }” method that similarly appends entries, but that is bit more intrusive.

This assuming that problem is not due to mixed content (that is, no unwrapped text/cdata sections), but due to disjoint sequences of elements with same name.

[cowtowncoder]

Since there is a work-around (or two) but no clear path on how to solve this in other ways, will close the issue: should be possible for users to find work-arounds on closed issue.