Unmarshalling fails with no errors when setting namespace to #XmlRootElement - java

I have created a JAXB object and I am trying to unmarshal an xml string into it.
The problem that I am facing is that when I put the namespace property in the #XmlRootElement and in the xml document that I am sending, the JAXB object is getting created but it is empty. If I remove the namespace it works. So here is what I mean
My JAXB Object:
#XmlRootElement(name = "incident", namespace = "http://www.ba.com/schema/BAserviceDeskAPI/incident")
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Incident {
#XmlElement
private String eventTitle;
public Incident() {
}
public String getEventTitle() {
return eventTitle;
}
public void setEventTitle(String eventTitle) {
this.eventTitle = eventTitle;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
builder.append("Incident [");
builder.append("eventTitle=");
builder.append(eventTitle);
builder.append("]");
return builder.toString();
}
}
My Main:
public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException {
String s = "<incident xmlns=\"http://www.ba.com/schema/BAserviceDeskAPI/incident\">"
+ "<eventTitle>Test Title from BAwrapper</eventTitle>"
+ "</incident>";
JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Incident.class);
Unmarshaller jaxbUnmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
Incident incident = (Incident) jaxbUnmarshaller.unmarshal(new ByteArrayInputStream(s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
System.out.println(incident.toString());
}
}
Output:
Incident [eventTitle=null]
If I remove the , namespace = "http://www.ba.com/schema/BAserviceDeskAPI/incident" from the #XmlRootElement and the xmlns=\"http://www.ba.com/schema/BAserviceDeskAPI/incident\" from the xml sent I get the output below
Incident [eventTitle=Test Title from BAwrapper]
Any ideas why this happens?
Thanks

The namespace specified on #XmlRootElement only applies to that element. If you want it to apply to all the elements you have mapped to, you can do it at the package level using the #XmlSchema annotation.
package-info.java
#XmlSchema(
namespace = "http://www.ba.com/schema/BAserviceDeskAPI/incident",
elementFormDefault = XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED)
package example;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNsForm;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema;
For More Information
I have written more about JAXB and namespace qualification on my blog:
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/08/jaxb-namespaces.html
Additional Info
Unmarshalling fails with no errors when setting namespace to
#XmlRootElement
For JAXB we (the JSR-222 expert group) decided that an unmarshal shouldn't fail by default if there is unmapped content. Why? Because alot of XML documents contain extra content and things would be failing all the time. If you do want to see these errors then you can specify a ValidationEventHandler on the Unmarshaller.

Related

#XmlElement with multiple names

I have a situation here, trying to act as a gateway between two APIs. What I need to do, is:
make a request to an APIa;
parse (marshal) the XML response into an java object;
make little changes to it;
and then give a response in XML (unmarshal) to the other end (APIb).
The thing is that I use the same object to parse the API response and to send the response to the other end.
public class ResponseAPI{
#XmlElement(name="ResponseCode") //I receive <ResponseCode> but I need to send <ResultCode>
private String responseCode;
//getter and setter
}
as the comment says: I receive but I need to send
Is there a way to get this done without having to create another extra class which carries ResultCode?
thanks in advance!
You can try next solution using #XmlElements annotaion
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class ResponseAPI
{
#XmlElements(
{
#XmlElement(name = "ResponseCode"),
#XmlElement(name = "ResultCode")
})
private String responseCode;
// ...
}
In this case both ResponseCode and ResultCode will be used during unmarshalling (xml -> object) and only ResultCode during marshalling (object -> xml).
So you can unmarshall XML like
<responseAPI>
<ResponseCode>404</ResponseCode>
</responseAPI>
After marshalling object will looks like
<responseAPI>
<ResultCode>404</ResultCode>
</responseAPI>
Note:
The answer given by Ilya works but isn't guaranteed to work across all implementations of JAXB or even across versions of a single JAXB implementation. The #XmlElements annotation is useful when the decision of which element to marshal depends on the type of the value (see: http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/10/jaxb-and-xsd-choice-xmlelements.html). In your use case both the ResponseCode and ResultCode elements correspond to type String, unmarshalling will always work fine, but the choice of which element to output is arbitrary. Some JAXB Impls may have last specified wins, but others could easily have first wins.
You could do the following by leveraging #XmlElementRef.
Java Model
ResponseAPI
We will change the responseCode property from type String to JAXBElement<String>. The JAXBElement allows us to store the element name as well as the value.
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
#XmlRootElement
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class ResponseAPI{
#XmlElementRefs({
#XmlElementRef(name = "ResponseCode"),
#XmlElementRef(name = "ResultCode")
})
private JAXBElement<String> responseCode;
public JAXBElement<String> getResponseCode() {
return responseCode;
}
public void setResponseCode(JAXBElement<String> responseCode) {
this.responseCode = responseCode;
}
}
ObjectFactory
The #XmlElementRef annotations we used on the ResponseAPI class correspond to #XmlElementDecl annotations on a class annotated with #XmlRegistry. Traditionally this class is called ObjectFactory but you can call it anything you want.
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
#XmlRegistry
public class ObjectFactory {
#XmlElementDecl(name="ResponseCode")
public JAXBElement<String> createResponseCode(String string) {
return new JAXBElement<String>(new QName("ResponseCode"), String.class, string);
}
#XmlElementDecl(name="ResultCode")
public JAXBElement<String> createResultCode(String string) {
return new JAXBElement<String>(new QName("ResultCode"), String.class, string);
}
}
Demo Code
input.xml
<responseAPI>
<ResponseCode>ABC</ResponseCode>
</responseAPI>
Demo
When creating the JAXBContext we need to ensure that we include the class that contains the #XmlElementDecl annotations.
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(ResponseAPI.class, ObjectFactory.class);
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
File xml = new File("Scratch/src2/forum24554789/input.xml");
ResponseAPI responseAPI = (ResponseAPI) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);
ObjectFactory objectFactory = new ObjectFactory();
String responseCode = responseAPI.getResponseCode().getValue();
JAXBElement<String> resultCodeJAXBElement = objectFactory.createResultCode(responseCode);
responseAPI.setResponseCode(resultCodeJAXBElement);
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.marshal(responseAPI, System.out);
}
}
Output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<responseAPI>
<ResultCode>ABC</ResultCode>
</responseAPI>

How to convert XML to Object using JAXB

My client is using DropWizard/Jersey.
I am getting a response back in the form of xml. It looks like this:
I've created a file called package-info.java with following contents:
#XmlSchema(
namespace = "http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2011-08-01",
elementFormDefault = XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED)
package com.aerstone.services.core.handlerpojos.amazon;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNsForm;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema;
Finally, I have a POJO which looks like this. For now I'm just trying to map the title and ASIN.
#XmlRootElement(name="ItemSearchResponse")
public class AmazonItem
{
private String name;
private String asin;
public AmazonItem(){}
#XmlJavaTypeAdapter(CollapsedStringAdapter.class)
#XmlElement(name="Title")
public String getName()
{
return name;
}
public void setName(String name){this.name = name;}
#XmlJavaTypeAdapter(CollapsedStringAdapter.class)
#XmlElement(name="ASIN")
public String getAsin(){ return asin;}
public void setAsin(String asin){ this.asin = asin; }
}
I'm using it like this:
JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(AmazonItem.class);
Unmarshaller unMarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();
newItem = (AmazonItem) unMarshaller.unmarshal(response);
But I'm getting this error:
! javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"ItemLookupResponse"). Expected elements are <{http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2011-08-01}ItemSearchResponse>
You are attempting to unmarshal a document that starts with:
<ItemLookupRespons>
Instead of the XML document you have in your question that starts with:
<ItemSearchResponse xmlns="http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2011-08-01">
If you created your JAXB model from an XML schema where the document you are trying to unmarshal is valid then you should create your JAXBContext on the package name of the generated model, or on the ObjectFactory class that was generated to pull in all the classes for the model.

Unmarshalling with multiple namespaces

So, lets say I have this xml with several namespaces.
<Envelope xmlns:pdi="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi" xmlns:ib="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib" xmlns="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope">
<Product>
<pdi:number>123456</pdi:number>
</Product>
<Instance>
<ib:serial>abcdefg</ib:serial>
</Instance>
</Envelope>
I'm trying to build a client for it. I have an Envelope POJO that's declared like this
#XmlRootElement(name ="Envelope", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public class Envelope
and inside, it has these attributes
#XmlElement(name="Product", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public Product getProduct(){...}
#XmlElement(name="Instance", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib")
public Instance getInstance(){...}
Also, the Product POJO looks like this:
#XmlRootElement(name="Product", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public class Product
and attribute
#XmlElement(name="pdi:number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public int getNumber(){...}
For some reason, I can't get the product number. I keep getting a request error. Am I handling the namespaces correctly, or am I missing something?
For this use case I would recommend leveraging the package level #XmlSchema annotation to specify the namespace qualification.
package-info (forum14651918/package-info.java)
#XmlSchema(
namespace="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope",
elementFormDefault=XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED,
xmlns={
#XmlNs(namespaceURI = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope", prefix = ""),
#XmlNs(namespaceURI = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib", prefix = "ib"),
#XmlNs(namespaceURI = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi", prefix = "pdi")
}
)
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
Envelope (forum14651918/Envelope.java)
Since we have specified a namespace and elementFormDefault on the #XmlSchema annotation, all the elements corresponding to the Envelope class will be automatically qualified with the http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope namespace.
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
#XmlRootElement(name="Envelope")
public class Envelope {
#XmlElement(name="Product")
private Product product;
#XmlElement(name="Instance")
private Instance instance;
}
Product (forum14651918/Product.java)
You can override the namespace for the Product class using the #XmlType annotation.
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
#XmlType(namespace="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public class Product {
private int number;
}
Instance (forum14651918/Instance.java)
You can override the namespace for the Instance class using the #XmlType annotation.
package forum14651918;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
#XmlType(namespace="http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib")
public class Instance {
private String serial;
}
Demo (forum14651918/Demo.java)
Below is some code you can run to prove that everything works.
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Envelope.class);
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
File xml = new File("src/forum14651918/input.xml");
Envelope envelope = (Envelope) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.marshal(envelope, System.out);
}
}
For More Information
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/08/jaxb-namespaces.html
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/11/jaxb-and-namespace-prefixes.html
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/06/using-jaxbs-xmlaccessortype-to.html
Try replacing name="pdi:number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi" with name="number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi". Prefix is not needed.
What is more looking at the XML it seems that namespace for both Product and Instance is http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope.
You should not need #XmlRootElement annotation for Product class. It is not a root element and is already configured on getProduct().
Full configuration that should be OK is:
#XmlRootElement(name ="Envelope", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public class Envelope {
#XmlElement(name="Product", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public Product getProduct(){...}
#XmlElement(name="Instance", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/envelope")
public Instance getInstance(){...}
}
public class Product {
#XmlElement(name="number", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/pdi")
public int getNumber(){...}
}
public class Instance {
#XmlElement(name="serial", namespace = "http://www.mypage.com/schemas/ib")
public String getSerial(){...}
}

JaxB unmarshal custom xml

I'm currently attempting to unmarshal some existing XML into a few classes I have created by hand. Problem is, I always get an error that tells me, JaxB expects a weather element but finds a weather element. (?)
javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"http://www.aws.com/aws", local:"weather"). Expected elements are <{}api>,<{}location>,<{}weather>
I tried with and without "aws:" in the elements' name.
Here's my weather class:
#XmlRootElement(name = "aws:weather")
public class WeatherBugWeather
{
private WeatherBugApi api;
private List<WeatherBugLocation> locations;
private String uri;
#XmlElement(name="aws:api")
public WeatherBugApi getApi()
{
return this.api;
}
#XmlElementWrapper(name = "aws:locations")
#XmlElement(name = "aws:location")
public List<WeatherBugLocation> getLocations()
{
return this.locations;
}
public void setApi(WeatherBugApi api)
{
this.api = api;
}
public void setLocations(List<WeatherBugLocation> locations)
{
this.locations = locations;
}
#XmlAttribute(name="xmlns:aws")
public String getUri()
{
return this.uri;
}
public void setUri(String uri)
{
this.uri = uri;
}
}
And that's the XML I try to parse:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<aws:weather xmlns:aws="http://www.aws.com/aws">
<aws:api version="2.0" />
<aws:locations>
<aws:location cityname="Jena" statename="" countryname="Germany" zipcode="" citycode="59047" citytype="1" />
</aws:locations>
</aws:weather>
I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. Any hints? I suspect the problem to be the xmlns definition, but I have no idea what to do about it. (You can see that by looking at the uri-property. That was one unsuccessful idea. ^^) And yes, I did try to set the namespace but that rather set's the namespace's uri instead of it's ... name.
I would recommend adding a package-info class in with your domain model with the #XmlSchema annotation to specify the namespace qualification:
package-info
#XmlSchema(
namespace = "http://www.aws.com/aws",
elementFormDefault = XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED)
package com.example.foo;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNsForm;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema;
Note
Your XmlRootElement and #XmlElement annotation should not contain the namespace prefix. You should have #XmlRootElement(name = "weather") instead of #XmlRootElement(name = "aws:weather")
For More Information
http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/08/jaxb-namespaces.html
you need namespaces in your code. namespace prefixes are meaningless, you need the actual namespace (i.e. "http://www.aws.com/aws").
#XmlRootElement(name = "weather", namespace="http://www.aws.com/aws")

Serialize a Java Object

Let me know the best way to serialize my Java object Download. This is a class generated from a java wsimport tool from a WSDL.
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
#XmlType(name = "Download", propOrder = {
"Response",
"VendorInformation",
"DownloadItem",
"DownloadCommentItem",
"DownloadIntercomItem"
})
public class Download
{
#XmlElement(name = "Response")
protected ResponseMessageManagementType Response;
#XmlElement(name = "VendorInformation")
protected DownloadVendorInformation VendorInformation;
#XmlElement(name = "DownloadItem")
protected List<DownloadDownloadItem> DownloadItem;
#XmlElement(name = "DownloadCommentItem")
protected ArrayOfDownloadDldComment DownloadCommentItem;
#XmlElement(name = "DownloadIntercomItem")
protected ArrayOfDownloadDldIntercom DownloadIntercomItem;
.........................
}
The java classes generated from the tool do not have any serlization implementation.
And I want to serialize the Download class following this kind of format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Download xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="HTTP://xyz.abc.Com//Vendor/DownloadWSE.xsd">
<Response>
.....
</Response>
<VendorInformation>
...............
</VendorInformation>
<DownloadItem>
<DownloadDownloadItem>
.......
</DownloadDownloadItem>
<DownloadDownloadItem>
.......
</DownloadDownloadItem>
<DownloadDownloadItem>
.......
</DownloadDownloadItem>
</DownloadItem>
<DownloadCommentItem>
........
</DownloadCommentItem>
<DownloadIntercomItem>
........
</DownloadIntercomItem>
</Download>
You can see the mapping between XmlElementName and the content of the XML string.
I am at loss on how to do this.
Thanks
This is JAXB. You would need:
JAXBContext ctx = JAXBConetxt.newInstance(Download.class);
Marshaller m = ctx.createMarshaller();
m.marshal(downloadObject, out);
where out can be lots of things, including OutputStream, Writer and File. If you want to get it as a String, use a StringWriter
This is JAXB, and to get your example working you need to supply root element and namespace information:
Root Element
When you marshal an object with JAXB it requires information about the root element. One way to do this is to annotate your Download class with #XmlRootElement
#XmlRootElement(name="Download")
public class Download
If you cannot do that you will need to wrap your instance of Download in a JAXBElement:
Download download = new Download();
QName qname = new QName("HTTP://xyz.abc.Com//Vendor/DownloadWSE.xsd";
JAXBElement<Download> jaxbElement = new JAXBElement(qname, "Download"), Download.class, download);
Namespace Qualification
Also to get the namespace qualification you are after you can use the package level #XmlSchema annotation:
#XmlSchema(
namespace="HTTP://xyz.abc.Com//Vendor/DownloadWSE.xsd",
elementFormDefault=XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED)
package your.model.package.containing.download;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
Demo
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Download.class);
Download download = new Download();
QName qname = new QName("HTTP://xyz.abc.Com//Vendor/DownloadWSE.xsd";
JAXBElement<Download> jaxbElement = new JAXBElement(qname, "Download"), Download.class, download);
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.marshal(jaxbElement, System.out);
}
}

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