Change Jaxb Generated File Encoding Per project (non maven) in Netbeans

Question

I have the following issue:

I have a non maven project in NetBeans 8.2 which has utf-8 encoding

(as shown with - right click on project properties).

In project I have created JaxB xml binding and so some sources are generated in generated folder.

However generated sources are not using utf-8 and so I got

error: unmappable character for encoding UTF-8

if I try to compile.

If I change netbeans_default_options in (netbeans etc\netbeans.conf) so that it contains the line -J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 the problem for the particular project is solved - everything compiles fine.

But this breaks the rest of my projects which are not utf-8.

I am looking for the solution that will not impact the rest of my projects.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The solution was adding the following

<arg value="-encoding"/>
<arg value="UTF-8"/>

into the ant script inside xml_binding_build

so that the resulting xjc would look like this

<xjc package="mypackage" destdir="build/generated/jaxbCache/mypackage" catalog="catalog.xml">
            <classpath>
                <pathelement location="${src.dir}"/>
                <pathelement path="${jaxbwiz.xjcrun.classpath}"/>
            </classpath>
            <arg value="-xmlschema"/>
            <arg value="-encoding"/>
            <arg value="UTF-8"/>
            <schema file="xml-resources/jaxb/mypackage/mypackage.xsd"/>
            <depends file="xml-resources/jaxb/mypackage/mypackage.xsd"/>
            <produces dir="build/generated/jaxbCache/mypackage"/>
</xjc>

Ofcourse the xml_binding_build.xml is generated (automatically) and normally should not be edited by hand.

However this workatround is enough for me and it is better than converting every project to utf-8.