How to generate CDATA block using JAXB?
I am using JAXB to serialize my data to XML. The class code is simple as given below. I want to produce XML that contains CDATA blocks for the value of some Args. For example, current code produces this XML:
<command>
<args>
<arg name="test_id">1234</arg>
<arg name="source"><html>EMAIL</html></arg>
</args>
</command>
I want to wrap the "source" arg in CDATA such that it looks like below:
<command>
<args>
<arg name="test_id">1234</arg>
<arg name="source"><[![CDATA[<html>EMAIL</html>]]></arg>
</args>
</command>
How can I achieve this in the below code?
@XmlRootElement(name="command")
public class Command {
@XmlElementWrapper(name="args")
protected List<Arg> arg;
}
@XmlRootElement(name="arg")
public class Arg {
@XmlAttribute
public String name;
@XmlValue
public String value;
public Arg() {};
static Arg make(final String name, final String value) {
Arg a = new Arg();
a.name=name; a.value=value;
return a; }
}
Answer
Note: I'm the EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) lead and a member of the JAXB (JSR-222) expert group.
If you are using MOXy as your JAXB provider then you can leverage the @XmlCDATA extension:
package blog.cdata;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlCDATA;
@XmlRootElement(name="c")
public class Customer {
private String bio;
@XmlCDATA
public void setBio(String bio) {
this.bio = bio;
}
public String getBio() {
return bio;
}
}
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