Convert Java object to XML string
You can use the Marshaler's method for marshaling which takes a Writer as parameter:
and pass it an Implementation which can build a String object
Direct Known Subclasses: BufferedWriter, CharArrayWriter, FilterWriter, OutputStreamWriter, PipedWriter, PrintWriter, StringWriter
Call its toString method to get the actual String value.
So doing:
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();jaxbMarshaller.marshal(customer, sw);String xmlString = sw.toString();
A convenient option is to use javax.xml.bind.JAXB:
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();JAXB.marshal(customer, sw);String xmlString = sw.toString();
The [reverse] process (unmarshal) would be:
Customer customer = JAXB.unmarshal(new StringReader(xmlString), Customer.class);
No need to deal with checked exceptions in this approach.
As A4L mentioning, you can use StringWriter. Providing here example code:
private static String jaxbObjectToXML(Customer customer) { String xmlString = ""; try { JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Customer.class); Marshaller m = context.createMarshaller(); m.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE); // To format XML StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); m.marshal(customer, sw); xmlString = sw.toString(); } catch (JAXBException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return xmlString;}