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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 47

Unable to read data from JAXBElement<byte[]>

I am accessing one of the web-services from our vendor which takes a pageID and returns data in xml format.

When I access the web-service on browser, the format of xml after I key in pageID is as below

<EpsBinaryEx xmlns="http://Eprise">
<ErrorString>No Error</ErrorString>
<ErrorNum>1</ErrorNum>
<Data>ajhsdjasjajadjhgasd</Data>
</EpsBinaryEx>

Am interested in retrieving the element. This is actually a Base64 string. I have a method for EpsBinaryEx which is returning data in below form

 public JAXBElement<byte[]> getData() {
        return data;
    }

Using Java, am reading the webservice as below

PSWebService service = new PSWebService();                   
PSWebServiceSoap soap = service.getPSWebServiceSoap();
EpsBinaryEx base64Data = soap.getUploadedDocument(token, pageId);
System.out.println(base64Data.getData.getValue());

Instead of the base64 string, am getting output as [B@27e80064, which looks like some offset address.

Can you please let me know how to read the JABXElement element? getData.getValue() doesn't seem to work :(

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1761

Answers (1)

Zielu
Zielu

Reputation: 8562

getValue() returns byte[], so your println the array id not the content.

user Arrays.toString(base64Data.getData.getValue())) or new String(base64Data.getData.getValue())) to print the content.

You can also think over your design. I would keep the Data mapped as string in your jaxb bean, and add the method getDataDecoded() that would transform them to the byte[] using Base64 decoding, so no need for JAXBElement

@XmlRootElement
public class EpsBinaryEx {

    @XmlElement(name="ErrorString")
    String errorString;

    @XmlElement(name="ErrorNum")
    int errorNum;

    @XmlElement(name="Data")
    String encoded;

    @XmlTransient
    byte[] decoded;

    void afterUnmarshal(Unmarshaller u, Object parent) {
        decoded = Base64.decode(encoded);
    }

    boolean beforeMarshal(Marshaller m) {
        encoded = Base64.encode(decoded);
        return true;
    }

    public byte[] getData() {
        return decoded;
    }

    public void setData(byte[] d) {
        decoded = d;
    }

}

Upvotes: 1

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