Jackson XML: nested field deserialization

Question

I have the following xml

<MyPojo>
  <name>Jason</name>
  <age>25</age>
  <meta>
    <occupation>Engineer</occupation>
  </meta>
</MyPojo>

I need to deserialize it to the following POJO:

public class MyPojo {

    private String name;
    private int age;
    private String occupation;
}

The problem here is that occupation is wrapped within meta element

Answer 1

You need one more object:

public class MyPojo {

    private String name;
    private int age;
    private Meta meta;
}

public class Meta{
    private String occupation;
}

Answer 2

My idea is to replace occupation with an own class. Something like myMeta or whatever you want to call it(be aware in your case like the xml says: meta). This class should cotain the field occupation:

   public class Meta
   {
       private String occupation;
   }

After that you only have to add a new field of your new class e.g. myMeta to myPojo. Something like this:

   public class MyPojo
   {
       private String name;
       private int age;
       private Meta meta;
   }

this should avoid

that occupation is wrapped within meta element

Hope that helps!