How to deserialize XML with annotations using FasterXML

You have to add jackson-dataformat-xml dependency to your project:

<dependency>    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>    <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>    <version>2.3.3</version></dependency>

After that you can use XML annotations in this way:

@JacksonXmlRootElement(localName = "Courses")class Schedule {    @JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true)    private int semester;    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "Course")    private Course[] courses;    // getters, setters, toString, etc}class Course {    @JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true)    private String code;    @JacksonXmlProperty(isAttribute = true)    private int credits;    @JacksonXmlText(value = true)    private String name;    // getters, setters, toString, etc}

Now, you have to use XmlMapper instead of ObjectMapper:

JacksonXmlModule module = new JacksonXmlModule();module.setDefaultUseWrapper(false);XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper(module);System.out.println(xmlMapper.readValue(xml, Schedule.class));

Above script prints:

Schedule [semester=1, courses=[[code=A231, credits=3, name=Intermediate A], [code=A105, credits=2, name=Intro to A], [code=B358, credits=4, name=Advanced B]]]