JAXB
JAXB is a Data Format which uses the JAXB2 XML marshalling standard which is included in Java 6 to unmarshal an XML payload into Java objects or to marshal Java objects into an XML payload.
Using the Java DSL
For example the following uses a named DataFormat of jaxb which is configured with a number of Java package names to initialize the JAXBContext.
DataFormat jaxb = new JaxbDataFormat("com.acme.model"); from("activemq:My.Queue"). unmarshal(jaxb). to("mqseries:Another.Queue");
You can if you prefer use a named reference to a data format which can then be defined in your Registry such as via your Spring XML file. e.g.
from("activemq:My.Queue"). unmarshal("myJaxbDataType"). to("mqseries:Another.Queue");
Using Spring XML
The following example shows how to use JAXB to unmarshal using Spring configuring the jaxb data type
This example shows how to configure the data type just once and reuse it on multiple routes.
Multiple context paths
It is possible to use this data format with more than one context path. You can specify context path using :
as separator, for example com.mycompany:com.mycompany2
. Note that this is handled by JAXB implementation and might change if you use different vendor than RI.
Partial marshalling/unmarshalling
This feature is new to Camel 2.2.0.
JAXB 2 supports marshalling and unmarshalling XML tree fragments. By default JAXB looks for @XmlRootElement
annotation on given class to operate on whole XML tree. This is useful but not always - sometimes generated code does not have @XmlRootElement annotation, sometimes you need unmarshall only part of tree.
In that case you can use partial unmarshalling. To enable this behaviours you need set property partClass
. Camel will pass this class to JAXB's unmarshaler.
For marshalling you have to add partNamespace
attribute with QName of destination namespace. Example of Spring DSL you can find above.
Fragment
This feature is new to Camel 2.8.0.
JaxbDataFormat has new property fragment which can set the the Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT
encoding property on the JAXB Marshaller. If you don't want the JAXB Marshaller to generate the XML declaration, you can set this option to be true. The default value of this property is fales.
Ignoring the NonXML Character
This feature is new to Camel 2.2.0.
JaxbDataFromat supports to ignore the NonXML Character, you just need to set the filterNonXmlChars property to be true, JaxbDataFormat will replace the NonXML character with " " when it is marshaling or unmarshaling the message. You can also do it by setting the Exchange property Exchange.FILTER_NON_XML_CHARS
.
|
JDK 1.5 |
JDK 1.6+ |
---|---|---|
Filtering in use |
StAX API and implementation |
No |
Filtering not in use |
StAX API only |
No |
This feature has been tested with Woodstox 3.2.9 and Sun JDK 1.6 StAX implementation.
Working with the ObjectFactory
If you use XJC to create the java class from the schema, you will get an ObjectFactory for you JAXB context. Since the ObjectFactory uses JAXBElement to hold the reference of the schema and element instance value, jaxbDataformat will ignore the JAXBElement by default and you will get the element instance value instead of the JAXBElement object form the unmarshaled message body.
If you want to get the JAXBElement object form the unmarshaled message body, you need to set the JaxbDataFormat object's ignoreJAXBElement property to be false.
Setting encoding
You can set the encoding option to use when marshalling. Its the Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING
encoding property on the JAXB Marshaller.
You can setup which encoding to use when you declare the JAXB data format. You can also provide the encoding in the Exchange property Exchange.CHARSET_NAME
. This property will overrule the encoding set on the JAXB data format.
In this Spring DSL we have defined to use iso-8859-1
as the encoding:
Dependencies
To use JAXB in your camel routes you need to add the a dependency on camel-jaxb which implements this data format.
If you use maven you could just add the following to your pom.xml, substituting the version number for the latest & greatest release (see the download page for the latest versions).
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId> <artifactId>camel-jaxb</artifactId> <version>x.x.x</version> </dependency>