Question: produces Application/XML <!-- XML example cannot be generated; root element name is undefined --> with not annotated classes

[Sslimon]

Hi all

I hope it's fine to ask here a question.

I have a Spring Boot Rest Api and I want to have the swagger documentation. Mostly the Api produces application/xml. When the return class is annotated with XmlRootElement and the properties have the XmlElement attributes everything is working fine. But if a primitive type or a List is returned, the root element is missing. Is it somehow possible to tell springdoc he should use jaxb to generate all this information/names. So that the xml has the root name and everything which then really gets returned?

Thank you very much and best
Simon

[bnasslahsen]

@Sslimon,

The springdoc-openapi, generates the OpenAPI description. But is based on swagger-core and swagger-ui libraries.

This is an existing issue in the swagger-ui where you cas add you comment:

• xml example cannot be generated for response type of array swagger-api/swagger-ui#4650