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Aaron,
There are several ways to do what you want, but if you have a Schema I would try JAXB. You feed JAXB the schema and it will generate classes
that map to your XML document. You then unmarshal the XML document to Java objects. You can make changes and validate those objects, which
applies your schema rules to the object context tree. When you are done
you just unmarshal the result.
JAXB is not the only way to do this. The commons digester is an event driven engine that makes it pretty easy to traverse XML files and generate objects based on events. Other options include Castor, which is much more inclusive and focuses more on data base objects, quick, and jbind.
Since JAXB is a standard and is pretty flexible, I would consider that first. I finished an article on JAXB a week or so ago and did a presentation at COMMON that covers all of the options I described. If you are interested, I could pass along the presentation and will post the article link when it becomes available. One issue with JAXB is that it is new and you may find errors with complex schemas particularly if you are overriding default
bindings. It also doesn't perform 100% of the edits that are possible in a schema with unique being the most obvious omission.
Schemas are somewhat convoluted and more complex than they should be. The JAXB specification doesn't say you have to use .xsd schemas but
that is the only implementation at this time. I expect to see relax-ng support in a follow on release, which is a simpler schema language.
David Morris
Hey all,ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/10/03 08:27AM >>>
I have been working with XML and Java a lot lately and am wondering if there is a tool out there that will take an XML file or DTD or Schema and create a XML Java Bean. ? This Java Bean would have getters and setters for all of the fields plus parse and serialize methods for XML purposes.
Below is an example of a small ExtraCharge Java Bean that I use in an Order request type situation. It would just be nice to have because of all the different communication that I am doing in XML.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Aaron Bartell
import org.jdom.*; import org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder; import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import java.util.List; import java.util.LinkedList; import java.io.CharArrayReader;
public class ExtraCharge {
private String id = " "; private String shortDescription = " "; private Integer qty = new Integer(0); private Double price = new Double(0.0);
public ExtraCharge(String x) { this.parse(x); }
public Element serialize() { Element extraChargeRoot = new Element("ExtraCharge"); DocType docType = new DocType("ExtraCharge"); Document order = new Document(extraChargeRoot, docType);
extraChargeRoot.addContent(new Element("ShortDescription").addContent(shortDescription)); extraChargeRoot.addContent(new Element("ItemId").addContent(id)); extraChargeRoot.addContent(new Element("Qty").addContent(qty.toString())); extraChargeRoot.addContent(new Element("BillableAmount").addContent(new Element("Money").addContent(price.toString())));
return extraChargeRoot; }
public void parse(String sXML) {
// Change String to an input source so the parser.parse(is) can parse correctly char[] cArray = new char[sXML.length()]; sXML.getChars(0, sXML.length(), cArray, 0); CharArrayReader car = new CharArrayReader(cArray); InputSource is = new InputSource(car);
DOMBuilder builder = new DOMBuilder(true); // DOMBuilder builds a JDOM tree using DOM - true=validate DOMParser parser = new DOMParser(); // Xerces specific class
try { parser.parse(is); org.w3c.dom.Document domDoc = parser.getDocument(); // Create a w3c document org.jdom.Document jdomDoc = builder.build(domDoc); // Populate the jdom Document with the w3c Document Element extraChargeRoot = jdomDoc.getRootElement(); List allChildren = extraChargeRoot.getChildren();
String name = " "; for (int i = 0; i < allChildren.size(); i++) { name = ((Element) allChildren.get(i)).getName();
if (name.equals("ItemId")) { id = ((Element) allChildren.get(i)).getText();
} else if (name.equals("ShortDescription")) { shortDescription = ((Element) allChildren.get(i)).getText();
} else if (name.equals("Qty")) { qty = new Integer(((Element) allChildren.get(i)).getText());
} else if (name.equals("Money")) { price = new Double(((Element) allChildren.get(i)).getText()); } }
} catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("Java Error Message:" + e.getMessage()); } return; } // End Parse
/** * Gets the id * @return Returns a String */ public String getId() { return id; } /** * Sets the id * @param id The id to set */ public void setId(String id) { this.id = id; }
/** * Gets the shortDescription * @return Returns a String */ public String getShortDescription() { return shortDescription; } /** * Sets the shortDescription * @param shortDescription The shortDescription to set */ public void setShortDescription(String shortDescription) { this.shortDescription = shortDescription; }
/** * Gets the qty * @return Returns a Integer */ public Integer getQty() { return qty; } /** * Sets the qty * @param qty The qty to set */ public void setQty(Integer qty) { this.qty = qty; }
/** * Gets the price * @return Returns a Double */ public Double getPrice() { return price; } /** * Sets the price * @param price The price to set */ public void setPrice(Double price) { this.price = price; }
}
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