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Jackson xml deserializing inline array that is not contiguous
I have some strange xml I am trying deserialize to java objects
<Operator>
    <Parameter Key="a" Value="1"/>
    <Parameter Key="b" Value="2"/>
    <Parameter Key="c" Value="3"/>
    <StorageParameters Key="x" Value="***"/>
    <Parameter Key="d" Value="4"/>
</Operator>

I need to collect only the Parameter nodes as a list.
I have written my java classes as follows
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class Operator {
  
    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName="Parameter")
    @JacksonXmlElementWrapper(useWrapping = false)
    private List<Parameter> parameters;

   public Operator() {
       this.parameters = List.of();
   }

   public List<Parameter> getParameters() {
        return parameters;
    }

    public void setParameters(List<Parameter> parameters) {
        this.parameters = parameters;
    }
}


public class Parameter {
    private String Key;
    private String Value;

    public Parameter() {
        Key = "";
        Value = " ";
    }

    public String getKey() {
        return  Key;
    }

    public void setKey(String key) {
        Key = key;
    }

    public String getValue() { return Value; }

    public void setValue(String value) {
        Value = value;
    }
}

// Driver

JacksonXmlModule module = new JacksonXmlModule();
XmlMapper mapper = new XmlMapper(module);

Operator bean = mapper.readValue(xmlText, classOf[Operator])

When I run this the only value returned by the parameters list is the last Parameter entry with Key="d" and Value="4".
Is this expected behavior? Is there any annotation I can use to get all the Parameter Key/Value pairs?
Thanks!

The problem here is the presence of the <StorageParameters Key="x" Value="***"/> tag: the jackson library expects in a list to deserialize only the presence of n <Parameter/> equal tags but instead finds a different tag and consequently decides to interpret the list as distinct properties, so the last  <Parameter Key="d" Value="4"/> overwrites the previous values of the Parameter property and then the strange behaviour (the other StorageParameters is ignored cause the JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true) annotation in the Operator class).
To avoid this behaviour you can delete the undesired StorageParameters and deserialize your xml parsing the old xml and creating a new one without the undesired tag like below :
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse(new FileInputStream(xml));
Node node = doc.getElementsByTagName("StorageParameters").item(0);
node.getParentNode().removeChild(node);
TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer t = tf.newTransformer();
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
t.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer));
String result = writer.getBuffer().toString();
Operator value = mapper.readValue(result, Operator.class);

You have to use the JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true) annotation in your Parameter to indicate that values are attributes:
@Data
public class Parameter {

    @JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true)
    private String Key;
    @JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true)
    private String Value;
}

@Data
public class Operator {

    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "Parameter")
    @JacksonXmlElementWrapper(useWrapping = false)
    private List<Parameter> parameters;
}


Unfortunately I do not have control over the xml, so i will have to identify all the intermediate nodes and remove them. Looks like there might not be a generic way of doing this with jackson.

@sramalingam24 There is no automatic way , in case of multiple xml tags an alternative is xslt.

You could use @JsonMerge as used here: How to deserealize multiple nested elements in Jackson?
In your case:
@Data
public class Parameter {

    @JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true)
    private String Key;
    @JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true)
    private String Value;
}

@Data
public class Operator {

    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "Parameter")
    @JacksonXmlElementWrapper(useWrapping = false)
    @JsonMerge                                     // this should solve your problem
    private List<Parameter> parameters;
}

