JAXB inheritance, unmarshal to subclass of marshaled class

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The following snippet is a method of a Junit 4 test with a green light:

@Test
public void testUnmarshallFromParentToChild() throws JAXBException {
  Person person = new Person();
  int age = 30;
  String name = "Foo";
  person.name = name;
  person.age= age;

  // Marshalling
  JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(person.getClass());
  Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();

  StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
  marshaller.marshal(person, writer);

  String outString = writer.toString();

  assertTrue(outString.contains("</person"));

  // Unmarshalling
  context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class, RecieverPerson.class);
  Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();
  StringReader reader = new StringReader(outString);
  RecieverPerson reciever = (RecieverPerson)unmarshaller.unmarshal(reader);

  assertEquals(name, reciever.name);
  assertEquals(age, reciever.age);
}

The important part is the use of the JAXBContext.newInstance(Class... classesToBeBound) method for the unmarshalling context:

 context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class, RecieverPerson.class);

With this call, JAXB will compute a reference closure on the classes specified and will recognize RecieverPerson. The test passes. And if you change the parameters order, you’ll get a java.lang.ClassCastException (so they must be passed in this order).

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