Ytukyg

I want to add an id to my element, but I don't want this to appear in my XML file. So I tried not to put @XmlAttribute nor @XmlElement, but it always appears. I just want to set my id for my object, to get it back for something else in my program.

Here is my Java code in JAXB (simplified) :

public class Equipment {

    private String label;

    private Integer id;



    public Integer getId() {

        return id;

    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {

        this.id = id;

    }



    @XmlAttribute

    public String getLabel() {

        return label;

    }

    public void setLabel(String label) {

        this.label = label;

    }

}

And here it is the result when I create my XML file :

<site label="test">

  <equipment id="2" label="test">

  </equipment>

</site>

As you can see id appears, but it shouldn't.

Thanx !

In your Equipment class you need to tell JAXB that it should ignore the
id property. You do this by annotating it with @XmlTransient (instead of with
@XmlAttribute or @XmlElement).

@XmlTransient

public Integer getId() {

    return id;

}

This should result in XML output like this:

<site label="test">

  <equipment label="test"/>

</site>