How do I wrap a section of xml in a CDATA tag using Jackson

Question

I have the following java object

class MyXmlObject{
    @JsonProperty
    private InnerObject innerObject;
    @JsonProperty
    private String someOtherProperty;
}

When I serialize this using

public String getXmlObjectAsXML(MyXmlObject myXmlObject){
    JacksonXmlModule module = new JacksonXmlModule();

    module.setDefaultUseWrapper(false);
    XmlMapper mapper = new XmlMapper(module);

    mapper.configure(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT, true);

    String response = "";

    response = mapper.writeValueAsString(myXmlObject);
    return response;
}

I would like the InnerObject class to be wrapped in a CDATA tag.

What is the correct way to handle this scenario?

Answer 1

There is @JacksonXmlCData since 2.5. https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-xml:

@JacksonXmlCData allows specifying that the value of a property is to be serialized within a CData tag.