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Bill Lee
Bill Lee

Reputation: 61

Spring XML Binding

I am attempting to create a RESTful service that takes incoming XML and parses the results into a business object. I have the XML and the business object.

Is there a way to perform data-binding in terms of taking the xml coming into the RESTful service and automatically creating a business object.

Currently I am doing this part manually which I am pretty sure is not the best way to do this. I am thinking maybe there is way to map xml and transfer to object. Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 665

Answers (2)

user41871
user41871

Reputation:

You can accomplish this using an OXM (e.g. JAXB) and Spring Web MVC's @RequestBody annotation. Here's a simple RESTful example for creating a user object from an XML payload:

@RequestMapping(
    value = "/users",
    method = RequestMethod.POST,
    headers = "content-type=application/xml")
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
public String createUser(@RequestBody User user, HttpServletResponse res) {
    Long userId = userDao.create(user);
    response.addHeader("Location", "/users/" + userId);
    return null;
}

It sounds like you already have the XML payload part working so I'll leave it at that.

Upvotes: 1

vaxt
vaxt

Reputation: 142

I do exactly what you're asking, but with JSON, using flexjson. I believe the package org.springframework.oxm contains a framework for serializing and de-serializing XML data, but I haven't personally tried it.

Upvotes: 0

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