Parse XML TO JAVA POJO in efficient way

Solution 1:

You can use JAXB to convert XML into Java POJOs. But before you finalize the solution check this site for performance comparison.

Solution 2:

For those looking for JAXB code to convert xml to java object:

//Convert xml to String first
Element partyLoaderRequest; // your xml data
String xmlString = new XMLOutputter().outputString(partyLoaderRequest);   
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes());
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = docBuilder.parse(is);
org.w3c.dom.Element varElement = document.getDocumentElement();
JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();
JAXBElement<Person> loader = unmarshaller.unmarshal(varElement, Person.class);
Person inputFromXml = loader.getValue();

whereas Person has proper XML annotations:

@XmlRootElement(name="Person")
public class CimbWlAdminUserAmendInput {
    @XmlElement(name="companyName",required=true,nillable=false) 
    private String companyName;
    ...
    //setters getters
    @XmlTransient
    public String getCompanyName() {
        return companyName;
    }

    public void setCompanyName(String companyName) {
        this.companyName = companyName;
    }
}

Solution 3:

Serialization and Deserialization can be handle by JacksonXmlModule.

// Item.class - use lombok or create g/setters
@JsonPropertyOrder({"name", "description", "note"})
public class Item { 
   private String name;
   private String description;
   private String note;
}


// Test.class
package hello.service;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.JacksonXmlModule;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlRootElement;
import hello.entity.Item;
import org.junit.Before;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class NameServiceImplTest {

    ObjectMapper objectMapper;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        JacksonXmlModule xmlModule = new JacksonXmlModule();
        xmlModule.setDefaultUseWrapper(false);
        this.objectMapper = new XmlMapper(xmlModule);
        this.objectMapper.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
    }

    @Test
    public void serializeTest() {

        // Wrapper
        @JacksonXmlRootElement(localName = "names")
        class Names {
            public List<Item> item = new ArrayList<>();
        }

        Item item = new Item();
        item.setName("Vladimir");
        item.setDescription("Desc");
        item.setNote("Note");

        Item item2 = new Item();
        item2.setName("Iva");
        item2.setDescription("Desc2");
        item2.setNote("Note2");

        Names names = new Names();
        names.item.add(item);
        names.item.add(item2);

        try {
            String xml = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(names);
            assertNotNull(xml);
            System.out.println(xml);
        } catch (Exception e) { // IOException
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            fail();
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void deserializeTest() {
        String xml = "<names>" +
                "<item><name>name</name><description>desc</description><note>note</note></item>" +
                "<item><name>name</name><description>desc</description><note>note</note></item>" +
                "</names>";

        try {
            List<Item> names = objectMapper.readValue(xml, new TypeReference<List<Item>>() {});
            names.forEach(item -> {

                assertEquals("name", item.getName());
                assertEquals("desc", item.getDescription());
                assertEquals("note", item.getNote());

            } );
        } catch (Exception e) { // IOException

        }


    }
}