I'm serializing Objects to XML with the help of XStream.
How do I tell XStream to insert an xmlns to the XML output of my object?
As an example, I have this simple object I want to serialize:
@XStreamAlias(value="domain")
public class Domain
{
@XStreamAsAttribute
private String type;
private String os;
(...)
}
How do I achieve exactly the following output with XStream?
<domain type="kvm" xmlns:qemu="http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0">
<os>linux</os>
</domain>
Alternatively, this use case could be handled quite easily with a JAXB implementation (Metro, EclipseLink MOXy, Apache JaxMe, etc):
Domain
package com.example;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
@XmlRootElement
public class Domain
{
private String type;
private String os;
@XmlAttribute
public String getType() {
return type;
}
public void setType(String type) {
this.type = type;
}
public String getOs() {
return os;
}
public void setOs(String os) {
this.os = os;
}
}
package-info
@XmlSchema(xmlns={
@XmlNs(
prefix="qemu",
namespaceURI="http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0")
})
package com.example;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNs;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema;
Demo
package com.example;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Domain.class);
Domain domain = new Domain();
domain.setType("kvm");
domain.setOs("linux");
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.marshal(domain, System.out);
}
}
Output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<domain xmlns:qemu="http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0" type="kvm">
<os>linux</os>
</domain>
For More Information
- http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/08/jaxb-namespaces.html
- http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-does-jaxb-compare-to-xstream.html
XStream doesn't support namespaces but the StaxDriver
it uses, does. You need to set the details of your namespace into a QNameMap
and pass that into the StaxDriver
:
QNameMap qmap = new QNameMap();
qmap.setDefaultNamespace("http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0");
qmap.setDefaultPrefix("qemu");
StaxDriver staxDriver = new StaxDriver(qmap);
XStream xstream = new XStream(staxDriver);
xstream.autodetectAnnotations(true);
xstream.alias("domain", Domain.class);
Domain d = new Domain("kvm","linux");
String xml = xstream.toXML(d);
Output:
<qemu:domain type="kvm" xmlns:qemu="http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0">
<qemu:os>linux</qemu:os>
</qemu:domain>
This is a bit of a hack, but it's quick and easy: add a field to your class called xmlns
, and only have it non-null during serialisation. To continue your example:
@XStreamAlias(value="domain")
public class Domain
{
@XStreamAsAttribute
private String type;
private String os;
(...)
@XStreamAsAttribute
@XStreamAlias("xmlns:qemu")
String xmlns;
public void serialise(File path) {
XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver());
xstream.processAnnotations(Domain.class);
(...)
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(path.toFile()));
xmlns = "http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0";
xstream.toXML(this, out);
xmlns = null;
}
}
To be complete, setting xmlns = null
should be in a finally
clause. Using a PrintWriter
also allows you to insert an XML declaration at the start of the output, if you like.