I'm marshaling objects into an XML file. How can I add comments into that XML file
ObjectFactory factory = new ObjectFactory();
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Application.class);
Marshaller jaxbMarshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
jaxbMarshaller.marshal(application, localNewFile);
jaxbMarshaller.marshal(application, System.out);
to have some think like
<!-- Author date -->
Thanks
You could leverage JAXB and StAX and do the following:
Demo
If you want the comments at the beginning of the document you can write them out to the target before using JAXB to marshal the objects. You will need to be sure to se the Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT
property to true to prevent JAXB from writing the XML declaration.
import javax.xml.bind.*;
import javax.xml.stream.*;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
XMLOutputFactory xof = XMLOutputFactory.newFactory();
XMLStreamWriter xsw = xof.createXMLStreamWriter(System.out);
xsw.writeStartDocument();
xsw.writeComment("Author date");
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);
Foo foo = new Foo();
foo.setBar("Hello World");
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT, true);
marshaller.marshal(foo, xsw);
xsw.close();
}
}
Domain Model (Foo)
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
@XmlRootElement
public class Foo {
private String bar;
public String getBar() {
return bar;
}
public void setBar(String bar) {
this.bar = bar;
}
}
Output
<?xml version="1.0" ?><!--Author date--><foo><bar>Hello World</bar></foo>
UPDATE
With the StAX approach the output won't be formatted. If you want formatting the following may work better for you:
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "UTF-8");
writer.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n");
writer.write("<!--Author date-->\n");
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);
Foo foo = new Foo();
foo.setBar("Hello World");
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT, true);
marshaller.marshal(foo, writer);
writer.close();
}
}
after a lot of research, I've just added:
System.out.append("your comments");
System.out.flush();
System.out.append("\n");
System.out.flush();
jaxbMarshaller.marshal(application, localNewFile);
jaxbMarshaller.marshal(application, System.out);