How to get the XML in Java spring controller

Question

There is a controller like

public Response doSomething(@RequestBody SomeObject someObject) {
...
}

It gets an XML and converts it to SomeObject. What I want to know how can we can get the xml as well[preferably as string]. Xml gets printed in debug logs, but how to get it as string in program.

Answer 1

You could serialize your object again back to xml. Here is an example on how to do that.