JAXB generated classes: Ignore intermediate classes

Question

Here is a extract from my XML schema:

<xsd:complexType name="MyType">
    <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:element name="Numbers">
            <xsd:complexType>
                <xsd:sequence>
                    <xsd:element name="Number" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="5" type="xsd:decimal"/>
                </xsd:sequence>
            </xsd:complexType>
        </xsd:element>
    </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

JAXB generates me the following class:

public class MyType {
    protected MyType.Numbers numbers;

    public static class Numbers {
        protected List<BigDecimal> number;
    }
}

But I'd like to ignore this intermediate class and have something like:

public class MyType {
    protected List<BigDecimal> number;
}

Is that somehow possible?

Answer 1

Yes, that is possible with JAXB only with the help of external plugins, as this modification is actually change of the model. Have a look at @XmlElementWrapper plugin.

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