Debugging json WebClient unmarshal in older CXF (2.3.2) release

I'm trying to put together a component that makes a WebClient request to a JAX-RS (Jersey) REST service and unmarshals json into a Java object. Unfortunately, I'm using CXF 2.3.2, and I can't really upgrade at this point.

I was given the URL to send for the service, and I can see what JSON it's returning. From that, I tried to construct a POJO with Xml annotations, and then I constructed the WebClient call to get the response and unmarshal into the POJO. I first did a query returning String, so I could verify I get the JSON at least. That part works fine.

The query that specifies the POJO type is failing, however.

When I defined the POJO, I only defined one property that I know is coming in the JSON. I just wanted to verify the single property gets set before I defined more properties that I need to get. I assume other properties present in the JSON will be ignored.

The response I get looks something like this:

{"copyright":"<copyright stuff>","termsurl":"http://...","logourl":"http://...","status":200,"resp_code":0,"results":[{"id":"M100"},{"id":"M101"}]}

My POJO looks like this:

@XmlType(name = "queryResponse")
@XmlRootElement(name = "queryResponse")
public class QueryResponse {
private String copyright;

@XmlElement
public String getCopyright() { return this.copyright; }

public void setCopyright(String copyright) { this.copyright = copyright; }

When I try to run the query, I get the following:

UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"copyright"). Expected elements are <{}queryResponse>]

Is the problem that I don't have a top-level element in the json called "queryResponse"? If so, I can't change the service that's returning this data.

In my pom, I'm specifying "cxf-rt-core", "cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs", "cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb", "cxf-rt-bindings-http", and "cxf-rt-transports-http".