When serialising with JAXB to a DOMSource the object that results does not have a useful implementation of toString and alot of boiler plate is required to set up the marshalling. Here is some code that returns a DOMSource from an arbitrary JAXB annotated object with the toString method of the object return the XML representation:<\/p>\n
\r\npublic class SerialisationHelper\r\n{\r\n private final String marshalledBean;\r\n private final Document document;\r\n\r\n private SerialisationHelper(final Object bean) throws JAXBException, ParserConfigurationException\r\n {\r\n document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();\r\n\r\n final Marshaller marshaller = JAXBContext.newInstance(bean.getClass()).createMarshaller();\r\n marshaller.marshal(bean, document);\r\n final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();\r\n marshaller.marshal(bean, writer);\r\n marshalledBean = writer.toString();\r\n }\r\n\r\n @Override\r\n public String toString()\r\n {\r\n return marshalledBean;\r\n }\r\n\r\n private Document toDocument()\r\n {\r\n return document;\r\n }\r\n\r\n public static DOMSource marshalled(final Object entity)\r\n {\r\n try\r\n {\r\n final SerialisationHelper serialisationHelper = new SerialisationHelper(entity);\r\n return new DOMSource(serialisationHelper.toDocument()) {\r\n @Override\r\n public String toString()\r\n {\r\n return serialisationHelper.toString();\r\n }};\r\n }\r\n catch (final JAXBException e)\r\n {\r\n throw new RuntimeException(\"unable to marshal \" + entity, e);\r\n }\r\n catch (final ParserConfigurationException e)\r\n {\r\n throw new RuntimeException(\"unable to marshal \" + entity, e);\r\n }\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When serialising with JAXB to a DOMSource the object that results does not have a useful implementation of toString and alot of boiler plate is required to set up the marshalling. Here is some code that returns a DOMSource from … Continue reading