Xml serialization JAXB vs Jackson-dataformat-xml?

Question

I have a XSD from which I want to support both JSON and XML data formats serialization/deserialization.

I generated my Model classes using xjc utility.

So uptill now I have handled JSON data by using Jackson JSON library.

I cannot modify my Java classes, so I configured ObjectMapper with Mix-In annotations and other features like PropertyNamingStrategy (changing field names), SerializationFeature.WRAP_ROOT_VALUE to provide configurations over my serilaization through code.

Now I want to do the same with XML serialization process.

I have read online for various options :

1. JAXB
2. Jackson library + Jackson-dataformat-xml.jar
3. XStream

Which is the most suitable for my case (cannot edit my POJOs with annotations, only code configurations allowed) ??

Answer 1

My vote is for #2 Jackson library + Jackson-dataformat-xml.jar Have a look on the code for JSON and XML, it's just the same with bit change here and there.

MainClass

  import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect.Visibility;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;

 public class MainClass {

public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException {

    // Serialization: java obj to json--> writeValueAsString
    // DeSerialization: json to java obj--> ReadValue

    XmlMapper mapper1 = new XmlMapper();
    ObjectMapper mapper2 = new ObjectMapper();

    mapper1.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY);
    mapper2.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY);

    mapper1.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
    mapper2.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);

    MyPojo mypojo = new MyPojo();
    mypojo.setName("Dhani");
    mypojo.setId("18082013");
    mypojo.setAge(5);

    String jsonStringXML = mapper1.writeValueAsString(mypojo);
    String jsonStringJSON = mapper2.writeValueAsString(mypojo);
    // takes java class with def or customized constructors and creates JSON

    System.out.println("XML is " + "\n" + jsonStringXML + "\n");
    System.out.println("Json is " + "\n" + jsonStringJSON);
}   }

MyPojo.java

   import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
   import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
   import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;
   import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlRootElement;

  @JsonPropertyOrder({ "name", "age", "id", "note" })
  @JacksonXmlRootElement(namespace = "urn:stackify:jacksonxml", localName = "myPOJO")
   public class MyPojo {

@JsonProperty("_id")
private String id;

private String name;

private int age;

@JsonIgnore
private String note;

public String getNote() {
    return note;
}

public void setNote(String note) {
    this.note = note;
}

public String getId() {
    return id;
}

public void setId(String id) {
    this.id = id;
}

public String getName() {
    return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}

public int getAge() {
    return age;
}

public void setAge(int age) {
    this.age = age;
} }

RESULT

XML

        <myPOJO xmlns="urn:stackify:jacksonxml">
        <name xmlns="">Dhani</name>
         <age xmlns="">5</age>
         <_id xmlns="">18082013</_id>
         </myPOJO>

Json

     {
      "name" : "Dhani",
       "age" : 5,
       "_id" : "18082013"
         }