My schema specifies a namespace, but the documents don't. What's the simplest way to ignore namespace during JAXB unmarshalling (XML -> object)?
In other words, I have
<foo><bar></bar></foo>
instead of,
<foo xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"><bar></bar></foo>
Here is an extension/edit of VonCs solution just in case someone doesn´t want to go through the hassle of implementing their own filter to do this. It also shows how to output a JAXB element without the namespace present. This is all accomplished using a SAX Filter.
Filter implementation:
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLFilterImpl;
public class NamespaceFilter extends XMLFilterImpl {
private String usedNamespaceUri;
private boolean addNamespace;
//State variable
private boolean addedNamespace = false;
public NamespaceFilter(String namespaceUri,
boolean addNamespace) {
super();
if (addNamespace)
this.usedNamespaceUri = namespaceUri;
else
this.usedNamespaceUri = "";
this.addNamespace = addNamespace;
}
@Override
public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
super.startDocument();
if (addNamespace) {
startControlledPrefixMapping();
}
}
@Override
public void startElement(String arg0, String arg1, String arg2,
Attributes arg3) throws SAXException {
super.startElement(this.usedNamespaceUri, arg1, arg2, arg3);
}
@Override
public void endElement(String arg0, String arg1, String arg2)
throws SAXException {
super.endElement(this.usedNamespaceUri, arg1, arg2);
}
@Override
public void startPrefixMapping(String prefix, String url)
throws SAXException {
if (addNamespace) {
this.startControlledPrefixMapping();
} else {
//Remove the namespace, i.e. don´t call startPrefixMapping for parent!
}
}
private void startControlledPrefixMapping() throws SAXException {
if (this.addNamespace && !this.addedNamespace) {
//We should add namespace since it is set and has not yet been done.
super.startPrefixMapping("", this.usedNamespaceUri);
//Make sure we dont do it twice
this.addedNamespace = true;
}
}
}
This filter is designed to both be able to add the namespace if it is not present:
new NamespaceFilter("http://www.example.com/namespaceurl", true);
and to remove any present namespace:
new NamespaceFilter(null, false);
The filter can be used during parsing as follows:
//Prepare JAXB objects
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance("jaxb.package");
Unmarshaller u = jc.createUnmarshaller();
//Create an XMLReader to use with our filter
XMLReader reader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
//Create the filter (to add namespace) and set the xmlReader as its parent.
NamespaceFilter inFilter = new NamespaceFilter("http://www.example.com/namespaceurl", true);
inFilter.setParent(reader);
//Prepare the input, in this case a java.io.File (output)
InputSource is = new InputSource(new FileInputStream(output));
//Create a SAXSource specifying the filter
SAXSource source = new SAXSource(inFilter, is);
//Do unmarshalling
Object myJaxbObject = u.unmarshal(source);
To use this filter to output XML from a JAXB object, have a look at the code below.
//Prepare JAXB objects
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance("jaxb.package");
Marshaller m = jc.createMarshaller();
//Define an output file
File output = new File("test.xml");
//Create a filter that will remove the xmlns attribute
NamespaceFilter outFilter = new NamespaceFilter(null, false);
//Do some formatting, this is obviously optional and may effect performance
OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat();
format.setIndent(true);
format.setNewlines(true);
//Create a new org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter that will serve as the
//ContentHandler for our filter.
XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(new FileOutputStream(output), format);
//Attach the writer to the filter
outFilter.setContentHandler(writer);
//Tell JAXB to marshall to the filter which in turn will call the writer
m.marshal(myJaxbObject, outFilter);
This will hopefully help someone since I spent a day doing this and almost gave up twice ;)