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user118805
user118805

Reputation:

How do I encode UTF-8 using the XStream framework?

Per XStream's FAQ its default parser does not preserve UTF-8 document encoding, and one must provide their own encoder. How does one do this?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 14

Views: 22775

Answers (3)

Urs Reupke
Urs Reupke

Reputation: 6921

With a current version of XStream, @Jeromy's example would look like this:

ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(stream, "UTF-8");
HierarchicalStreamWriter xmlWriter = new PrettyPrintWriter(writer);
xstream.marshal(object, xmlWriter);
return new String(stream.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");

Upvotes: 3

user117623
user117623

Reputation: 131

Another solution would be to initiate the XStream-object with correct encoding, through a driver. Using the DomDriver this would look like:

XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver("UTF-8"));

The (default) PrettyPrintWriter will be wrapped by an outputstream with correct encoding. You could not add the UTF-8 header this way however...

Upvotes: 13

Jeromy Evans
Jeromy Evans

Reputation: 494

Create a Writer with UTF-8 encoding. Pass the Writer as an argument to XStream's toXML method.

XStream xstream = new xStream();
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, "UTF-8");

xStream.toXML(object, writer);
String xml = outputStream.toString("UTF-8");

You may also use that Writer to include the XML Declaration.

writer.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>");
xStream.toXML(object, writer);

Upvotes: 36

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