JAXB and CData without control over generated sources

Question

I have a project using a 3rd party lib, including generated JAXB Java objects (Which I haven no source control over)

I found that one of the elements in this model, expects a <![CDATA blob. Is there any way to make Jaxb marshaller aware of this, and not escape the output in that particular field?

The XML model is as follows:

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(
    name = "MyComplexType",
    propOrder = {"val1", "cdataval"}
)
public class MyComplexType {
    @XmlElement(
        name = "val1",
        required = true
    )
    protected String val1;

    protected String cdataval;

    public MyComplexType() {
    }

    ... getter and setters...
}

So, as I mentioned earlier, adding CData to the cdataval makes JaxB marshaller escape the content leading to invalid CData content.

How could I make the marshaller NOT escape the content, without modifying the generated sources? It would be so easy to just add a special XmlAdapter on that field, but nope, can't do that.

Regards

`CData` is just a way of writing text inside a XML node. It should not be a problem, if that text is written in another form... — Usagi Miyamoto, Jul 17 '17 at 08:53
@UsagiMiyamoto The problem is that it's supposed to contain XML inside that node, so after running `marshaller.marshal(rootObj, writer)` that element get's completely escaped with `>` and `<`. — Robin Jonsson, Jul 17 '17 at 09:16
That is not a problem. The other party should be able to read and parse it... — Usagi Miyamoto, Jul 17 '17 at 09:17
See this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25832468/4899193 — Usagi Miyamoto, Jul 17 '17 at 09:19

JAXB and CData without control over generated sources

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