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Evgeni Dimitrov
Evgeni Dimitrov

Reputation: 22516

CXF SOAP service preserve space

I have CXF soap web service.

@Component
@WebService(endpointInterface = "com....MyWs", serviceName="MySrv")
public class MyWsImpl implements MyWs {
    @Override
    public List<MyModel> get(String customer) {
        List<MyModel> models = ...;
        return models;
    }
}

There is a filed in MyModel that can be a space (" "), but the parser trims the value and it's serialized as <mySpaceVal></mySpaceVal> wile I want <mySpaceVal> </mySpaceVal>

How can I do that?

I tried to add 

@XmlAttribute(name="space", namespace="xml")
public final static String space = "preserve";

to MyModel so the parser can add xml:space="preserve" attribute. But it adds a namespace ns3="xml" and displays the attribute as ns3:space="preserve" and the element is displayed as an empty string instead of " "

Upvotes: 2

Views: 885

Answers (1)

vsminkov
vsminkov

Reputation: 11270

You can wrap your string value in <![CDATA[]]> section using jaxb adapter:

@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(CDATAXmlAdapter.class)
public final static String space = "...";

private static class CDATAXmlAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, String> {
    @Override
    public String marshal(final String value) throws Exception {
        // you may want to apply additional value escaping to avoid
        // CDATA nesting problem
        return "<![CDATA[" + value + "]]>";
    }

    @Override
    public String unmarshal(final String value) throws Exception {
        // If you expect that server will send CDATA as well
        // then you need to strip CDATA from value
        return value;
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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