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Yes, yes I know that lots of questions were asked about this topic. But I still cannot find the solution to my problem. I have a property annotated Java object. For example Customer, like in this example. And I want a String representation of it. Google reccomends using JAXB for such purposes. But in all examples created XML file is printed to file or console, like this:

But I have to use this object and send over network in XML format. So I want to get a String which represents XML.

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How can I do this?

BobBob

11 Answers

You can use the Marshaler's method for marshaling which takes a Writer as parameter:

and pass it an Implementation which can build a String object

Direct Known Subclasses: BufferedWriter, CharArrayWriter, FilterWriter, OutputStreamWriter, PipedWriter, PrintWriter, StringWriter

Call its toString method to get the actual String value.

So doing:

A4LA4L

A convenient option is to use javax.xml.bind.JAXB:

The reverse process (unmarshal) would be:

No need to deal with checked exceptions in this approach.

juliaaanojuliaaano

Java Serialize Object To Xml File

As A4L mentioning, you can use StringWriter. Providing here example code:

You can marshal it to a StringWriter and grab its string. from toString().

SLaksSLaks

To convert an Object to XML in Java

Java Serializable Object To Xml

Customer.java

ConvertObjToXML.java

Try with this example..

Testing And working Java code to convert java object to XML:

C# Serialize To Xml

Customer.java

createXML.java

Sireesh YarlagaddaSireesh Yarlagadda

object --> is Java class to convert it to XML
name --> is just name space like thing - for differentiate

I took the JAXB.marshal implementation and added jaxb.fragment=true to remove the XML prolog. This method can handle objects even without the XmlRootElement annotation. This also throws the unchecked DataBindingException.

If the compiler warning bothers you, here's the templated, two parameter version.

Bienvenido DavidBienvenido David

Serialize Java Object To Xml String

Matthew Verstraete

Java Serialize Object To File

Use this function to convert Object to xml string (should be called as convertToXml(sourceObject, Object.class); )-->

Use this function to convert xml string to Object back -->(should be called as createObjectFromXmlString(xmlString, Object.class))

JRSofty

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