Scala: akka http unmarshal xml strings to case classes -

i have simple xml response third-party api.

let's looks like

<items>     <item name="name1"/>     <item name="name2"/>     <item name="name3"/>  </items> 

having case classes

case class items(children: list[item])  case class item(name: string) 

how can write unmarshaller use implicitly work code this:

unmarshal(myxmlstring).to[items].map ... 

or better

unmarshal(myxmlstring).to[list[item]].map ... 

can without defining unmarshal functions explicitly access xml? data have looks declarative enough have unmarshalling without additional boilerplate.

scala-xml doesn't provide deserializer hydrate custom objects. if requirement simple mentioned in sample example, can try below:

    scala> val itemsstring = "<items><item name='name1'/><item name='name2'/><item name='name3'/></items>"        scala> val itemsxml = scala.xml.xml.loadstring(itemsstring)                                                   scala> val items = items(( itemsxml \\  "@name").tolist.map(( x=> item(x.tostring)) ))                               │