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XML Databinding really simple

Posted by edgars on July 13, 2006 at 12:03 PM EDT

XStream is the kind of project which is so easy and so great, that if somebody try give a presenation about that could be hard spend more than five minutes.

I've used XStream on some new supports for Greebox in order to allow Eclipse Developers use it.

Here I will take a piece of tests of my evaluations:


xml = new XStream();
xml.alias("class",net.java.dev.greenbox.base.Clazz.class);
xml.alias("attribute",net.java.dev.greenbox.base.Attribute.class);
xml.aliasField("package",net.java.dev.greenbox.base.Clazz.class,"packageName");
xml.aliasField("name",net.java.dev.greenbox.base.Clazz.class,"className");

classe = new Clazz();
classe.setPackageName("br.com.summatech.greenboxsamplexml.contact");
classe.setClassName("Contact");
Attribute nameContact = new Attribute();
nameContact.setName("name");
nameContact.setDataType("String");
nameContact.setAcessor("private");

Attribute email = new Attribute();
email.setName("email");
email.setDataType("String");
email.setAcessor("private");

ArrayList attrs = new ArrayList();
attrs.add(nameContact);
attrs.add(email);

classe.setAttributes(attrs);

System.out.println(xml.toXML(classe));

And the Result:

<class>
<package>br.com.summatech.greenboxsamplexml.contact</package>
<name>Contact</name>
<attributes>
<attribute>
<acessor>private</acessor>
<dataType>String</dataType>
<name>name</name>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<acessor>private</acessor>
<dataType>String</dataType>
<name>email</name>
</attribute>
</attributes>
</class>

So now, I can marshall and unmarchall object really easy! thanks codehaus :D and XStream team. Solutions like that could be part of JSE.

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