Re: How to convert Map to xml based on Schema.

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Date:
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:42:13 -0500
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On 11/18/2012 4:15 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 11/17/2012 1:52 AM, Mausam wrote:

I have a Map (it can be nested map, containing of maps) and a schema.
Keys in Map represent element/attribute name of the schema and an
entry in Map will be at same depth as an element defined in schema

I need help in generating xml from the map as per the schema provided,
without generating new files (as e.g Jaxb would require) Sample
schema/map provided below

e.g Map =
[dept=[deptno="10",dname="ABC",loc="XYZ",emps=[[empno=1000,ename="Albert"],[empno 00,ename="John"]]]]
and schema will be

e.g Schema
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
elementFormDefault="qualified">
   <xsd:element name="depts">
     <xsd:complexType>
       <xsd:sequence>
         <xsd:element name="dept" maxOccurs="unbounded">
           <xsd:complexType>
             <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element name="deptno" type="xsd:string"/><!-- This
simple element e.g can be attribute in some schema-->
               <xsd:element name="dname" type="xsd:string"/>
               <xsd:element name="emps" maxOccurs="unbounded"
minOccurs="0">
                 <xsd:complexType>
                   <xsd:sequence>
                     <xsd:element name="empno" type="xsd:string"/>
                     <xsd:element name="ename" type="xsd:string"/>
                   </xsd:sequence>
                 </xsd:complexType>
               </xsd:element>
             </xsd:sequence>
           </xsd:complexType>
         </xsd:element>
       </xsd:sequence>
     </xsd:complexType>
   </xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>


I would probably:
- generate a Java class from the schema (xjc)
- populate from Map to an instance of that class via recursion
   and reflection
- serialize instance to XML via JAXB

If you have high performance requirements, then you may need
to do some custom coding.


Demo with Map:

import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class AutoMapper {
    private static Object xctor(Object o, String propnam) throws
IntrospectionException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException {
        PropertyDescriptor pd = new PropertyDescriptor(propnam, o.getClass());
        return pd.getPropertyType().newInstance();
    }
    private static void xset(Object o, String propnam, Object val) throws
IntrospectionException, IllegalArgumentException,
IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException {
        PropertyDescriptor pd = new PropertyDescriptor(propnam, o.getClass());
        pd.getWriteMethod().invoke(o, val);
    }
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private static void map(Map<String,Object> m, Object o) throws
IllegalArgumentException, IntrospectionException,
IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException, InstantiationException {
        for(String key : m.keySet()) {
            Object val = m.get(key);
            if(val instanceof Map) {
                Object o2 = xctor(o, key);
                map((Map<String, Object>) val, o2);
                xset(o, key, o2);
            } else {
                xset(o, key, val);
            }
        }
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Map<String,Object> m2 = new HashMap<String,Object>();
        m2.put("iv", 456);
        m2.put("xv", 123.456);
        Map<String,Object> m = new HashMap<String,Object>();
        m.put("iv", 123);
        m.put("sv", "ABC");
        m.put("cv", m2);
        Data o = new Data();
        System.out.println(m);
        map(m, o);
        System.out.println(o);
    }
}

class Data {
    private int iv;
    private String sv;
    private SubData cv;
    public int getIv() {
        return iv;
    }
    public void setIv(int iv) {
        this.iv = iv;
    }
    public String getSv() {
        return sv;
    }
    public void setSv(String sv) {
        this.sv = sv;
    }
    public SubData getCv() {
        return cv;
    }
    public void setCv(SubData cv) {
        this.cv = cv;
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "(iv=" + iv + ",sv=" + sv + ",cv=" + cv + ")";
    }
}

class SubData {
    private int iv;
    private double xv;
    public int getIv() {
        return iv;
    }
    public void setIv(int iv) {
        this.iv = iv;
    }
    public double getXv() {
        return xv;
    }
    public void setXv(double xv) {
        this.xv = xv;
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "(iv=" + iv + ",xv=" + xv + ")";
    }
}

Arne

PS: It looks like you may really need to convert List not Map.

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