Re: REST CDATA Marshalling
Hi, One way would be to use a CXF JAX-RS implementation. I'm presuming no SOAP is involved as Todd is asking about CDATA in a context of the REST application, right ? If so, then with JAX-RS one can just return a String which uses CData to encapsulate XML..., with no JAXB involved. JAXB might be used to create the actual XML, but the String will be written directly to the output stream or read as is from the input stream... Cheers, Sergey Yea, there really is NOT a way to do this with JAXB. Jaxb doesn't call the writeCData method on the XmlStreamWriter at all, ever. (I just grepped the source). The ONLY way I can see to do this would be write a XmlStreamWriter wrapper that wraps the real writer and keeps track of the element it's in and if in the appropriate element, foward the writeCharacters calls to writeCData calls instead. Not sure how worth it that would be. Dan On Saturday 01 March 2008, Todd Orr wrote: I'm attempting to get String data wrapped in CDATA before being returned to the client. I do not want special characters to be escaped. First I tried simply wrapping the properties in my getters with the CDATA block. Unfortunately, JAXB continued to escape all the special characters. I found this post: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=607524messageID=353193 1. Although promising, I could not find out how to setup JAXB in my applicationContext in such a way to set this as the XMLSerializer. Has anyone accomplished this? It seems as though it would be a fairly common need. Thanks, T -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer, IONA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog IONA Technologies PLC (registered in Ireland) Registered Number: 171387 Registered Address: The IONA Building, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
Re: REST CDATA Marshalling
Why do you want to do this? The distinction between CDATA and various -entities is way below the level of web service semantics. Any conformant XML parser is going to treat them identically. On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Todd Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to get String data wrapped in CDATA before being returned to the client. I do not want special characters to be escaped. First I tried simply wrapping the properties in my getters with the CDATA block. Unfortunately, JAXB continued to escape all the special characters. I found this post: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=607524messageID=3531931. Although promising, I could not find out how to setup JAXB in my applicationContext in such a way to set this as the XMLSerializer. Has anyone accomplished this? It seems as though it would be a fairly common need. Thanks, T
Re: REST CDATA Marshalling
Indeed, the CXF JAXB data binding does not provide any simple way around this. In the example at hand, the code knows the target byte stream for the output, and is concocting a specialized XML writer that has the desired behavior. CXF uses StaX to write out XML. You'd need a StaX implementation. I wonder if you could create an interceptor that rewrote the XML the way you like it? I'm not much of an interceptor expert. On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Benson Margulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you want to do this? The distinction between CDATA and various -entities is way below the level of web service semantics. Any conformant XML parser is going to treat them identically. On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Todd Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to get String data wrapped in CDATA before being returned to the client. I do not want special characters to be escaped. First I tried simply wrapping the properties in my getters with the CDATA block. Unfortunately, JAXB continued to escape all the special characters. I found this post: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=607524messageID=3531931. Although promising, I could not find out how to setup JAXB in my applicationContext in such a way to set this as the XMLSerializer. Has anyone accomplished this? It seems as though it would be a fairly common need. Thanks, T
