XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

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XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

XML Marshalling and UnMarshalling using Spring and Castor XML binding framework - XML Config

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.ram.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>SpringDemo</artifactId>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>SpringDemo</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <spring.version>5.1.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.8.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Spring 3 dependencies -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Uses Castor for XML -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.castor</groupId>
            <artifactId>castor</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Castor need this -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>xerces</groupId>
            <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
            <version>2.8.1</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>
</project>

Customer.java

package com.ram.core.model;

public class Customer
{
    private String name;
    private int age;
    private String address;

    public String getName()
    {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name)
    {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public int getAge()
    {
        return age;
    }

    public void setAge(int age)
    {
        this.age = age;
    }

    public String getAddress()
    {
        return address;
    }

    public void setAddress(String address)
    {
        this.address = address;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return "Customer [name=" + name + ", age=" + age
                + ", address=" + address + "]";
    }

}

customer_mapping.xml

<mapping>
    <class name="com.ram.core.model.Customer">

        <map-to xml="customer" />

        <field name="name" type="string">
            <bind-xml name="name" node="element" />
        </field>

        <field name="age" type="integer">
            <bind-xml name="age" node="attribute" />
        </field>

        <field name="address" type="string">
            <bind-xml name="address" node="element" />
        </field>
    </class>
</mapping>

XMLConverter.java

package com.ram.core;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import org.springframework.oxm.Marshaller;
import org.springframework.oxm.Unmarshaller;

public class XMLConverter
{

    private Marshaller marshaller;
    private Unmarshaller unmarshaller;

    public Marshaller getMarshaller()
    {
        return marshaller;
    }

    public void setMarshaller(Marshaller marshaller)
    {
        this.marshaller = marshaller;
    }

    public Unmarshaller getUnmarshaller()
    {
        return unmarshaller;
    }

    public void setUnmarshaller(Unmarshaller unmarshaller)
    {
        this.unmarshaller = unmarshaller;
    }

    public void convertFromObjectToXML(Object object, String filepath)
            throws IOException
    {

        FileOutputStream os = null;
        try
        {
            os = new FileOutputStream(filepath);
            getMarshaller().marshal(object, new StreamResult(os));
        }
        finally
        {
            if (os != null)
            {
                os.close();
            }
        }
    }

    public Object convertFromXMLToObject(String xmlfile)
            throws IOException
    {
        FileInputStream is = null;
        try
        {
            is = new FileInputStream(xmlfile);
            return getUnmarshaller().unmarshal(new StreamSource(is));
        }
        finally
        {
            if (is != null)
            {
                is.close();
            }
        }
    }

}

applicationContext.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd">

    <bean id="XMLConverter" class="com.ram.core.XMLConverter">
        <property name="marshaller" ref="castorMarshaller" />
        <property name="unmarshaller" ref="castorMarshaller" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="castorMarshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.castor.CastorMarshaller" >
        <property name="mappingLocation" value="classpath:customer_mapping.xml" />
    </bean>

</beans>

castor.properties

org.exolab.castor.indent = true

App.java

package com.ram.core;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

import com.ram.core.model.Customer;

public class App
{
    private static final String XML_FILE_NAME = "customer.xml";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException  
    {
        ApplicationContext appContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
                "applicationContext.xml");
        XMLConverter converter = (XMLConverter) appContext
                .getBean("XMLConverter");

        Customer customer = new Customer();
        customer.setName("Peter");
        customer.setAge(52);
        customer.setAddress("A505,North Street,Bangalore");

        // from object to XML file
        converter.convertFromObjectToXML(customer, XML_FILE_NAME);
        System.out.println("Converted Object to XML!");

        // from XML to object
        Customer customer2 = (Customer) converter
                .convertFromXMLToObject(XML_FILE_NAME);
        System.out.println(customer2);
        System.out.println("Converted XML to Object!");

    }
}

Output:

Converted Object to XML!
Customer [name=Peter, age=52, address=A505,North Street,Bangalore]
Converted XML to Object!

customer.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customer age="52">
    <name>Peter</name>
    <address>A505,North Street,Bangalore</address>
</customer>

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