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Pavan Kumar
Pavan Kumar

Reputation: 31

XML XStream issues

<PersonalVehicleCoverage>
        <EffectiveDate class="sql-date">2011-03-01</EffectiveDate>
        <ExpirationDate class="sql-date">2011-05-31</ExpirationDate>
</PersonalVehicleCoverage>

The EffectiveDate is of java.sql.date;

I am using XStream to generate XML from java objects using the following syntax:

xstream.toXML(data);

I don't want class="sql-date" as output in the generated XML. How do I achieve that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1362

Answers (2)

Krešimir Nesek
Krešimir Nesek

Reputation: 5492

This is what helped me resolve the same problem:

xstream.addDefaultImplementation(java.sql.Date.class, Date.class);
xstream.addDefaultImplementation(java.sql.Timestamp.class, Date.class);

Where Date.class is java.util.Date.

Upvotes: 2

Matthias
Matthias

Reputation: 3592

To achieve what you want is straightforward. You create an XStream instance and configure it (in the example below I have to set the alias for the PersonalVehicleCoverage as static inner classes get serialized with the prefix of the containing class. As the example does not use a package, it is serialized as you required. If your classes are in a package, you can use something like this to adapt the XML: xStream.aliasPackage("pre", "my.package");

Here is the sample code:

import java.sql.Date;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;

public class XStreamDemo {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
    XStream xStream = new XStream();
    xStream.alias("PersonalVehicleCoverage", PersonalVehicleCoverage.class);
    PersonalVehicleCoverage object = new PersonalVehicleCoverage();
    DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy MMM DD");
    object.EffectiveDate = new Date(dateFormat.parse("2011 Jan 1").getTime());
    object.ExpirationDate = new Date(dateFormat.parse("2011 Jan 31").getTime());
    System.out.println(xStream.toXML(object));
  }

  static class PersonalVehicleCoverage {
    Date EffectiveDate;
    Date ExpirationDate;
  }
}

And here is the output of that example:

<PersonalVehicleCoverage>
  <EffectiveDate>2011-01-01</EffectiveDate>
  <ExpirationDate>2011-01-31</ExpirationDate>
</PersonalVehicleCoverage>

Upvotes: 0

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