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JAXB Tip: One Line of Code to Marshall and Unmarshall XML

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May. 29, 11 · Interview
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I wrote in a previous article how easy it is to translate Java object to/from XML, without adding exotic library dependencies to your project; recently I’ve going through the code of one of my colleague and I discovered that the 3 line necessary to marshal and un-marshal the XML can be shortened to a single line using the JAXB utility class:

JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(ObjectToConvert.class);
Unmarshaller u = context.createUnmarshaller();
return (ObjectToConvert) u.unmarshal(xmlInputStream);

// becomes
return (ClassToConvert)JAXB.unmarshal(xmlInputStream, ObjectToConvert.class);

// and
JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(objectInstanceToConvert.getClass());
Marshaller m = jc.createMarshaller();
m.marshal(objectInstanceToConvert, xmlOutputStream);

// becomes
JAXB.marshall(objectInstanceToConvert, xmlOutputStream)

Nice: one line of code to convert Java objects from/to XML. I didn’t notice this utility method in the JAXB library at first, so I was implementing those two methods in my code, more or less the same way. It’s always good to remove code.

From http://en.newinstance.it/2011/05/26/jaxb-tip-one-line-of-code-to-marshall-and-unmarshall-xml/

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