Groovy 1.8 Playing Nice with JAXB

Getting Groovy and JAXB to play nice together has been previously discussed many times. A good solution to the problem is presented here: Stack Overflow.

However, I started running into some problems when I upgraded to Groovy 1.8. Take the following class definition:

    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*

    @XmlRootElement
    @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)
    public class JobResult {
        @XmlElement String status
        @XmlElement String exitDescription
    }

During compliation, I received the following error:

    symbol: variable XmlAccessType
    @javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement() @javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType(value=XmlAccessType.NONE) public class JobResult
    /home/prystasj/workspace/project/target/generated-sources/groovy-stubs/main/org/oclc/controlledheading/admin/JobResult.java:[10,106] an enum annotation value must be an enum constant

Confused, I first tried using a static import:

    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*
    import static javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType.NONE

    @XmlRootElement
    @XmlAccessorType(NONE)
    public class JobResult {
        @XmlElement String status
        @XmlElement String exitDescription
    }

Giving me a different error:

    [ERROR] /home/prystasj/project/target/generated-sources/groovy-stubs/main/prystasj/JobResult.java:[10,93] cannot find symbol
    symbol: variable NONE
    @javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement() @javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType(value=NONE) public class JobResult

A solution I used was to fully qualify the path to field inside the XmlAccessorType annotation:

    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*

    @XmlRootElement
    @XmlAccessorType(javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType.NONE)
    public class JobResult {
        @XmlElement String status
        @XmlElement String exitDescription
    }