builder.parse((new StringReader(xml)) returns DeferredDocumentImpl

Question

I am trying to understand what mistake I could have made but can't find the solution.

public static Document getXMLFromString(String xml) {
        org.w3c.dom.Document doc = null;
        try {
            DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory
                    .newInstance();
            factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
            DocumentBuilder builder;
            builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            doc = (org.w3c.dom.Document) builder.parse(new InputSource(
                    new StringReader(xml)));
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return doc;
    }

I did import org.w3c.dom.Document

I am calling this method here:

private Node getAuthToken(SOAPMessage responseAuth) throws SOAPException,
            TransformerException, ParserConfigurationException, IOException,
            SAXException {
        String s = indentXML(responseAuth.getSOAPPart().getContent());
        Document doc = getXMLFromString(s);
        NodeList authTokenNodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("authToken");
        return authTokenNodeList.item(0);
    }

The NodeList is empty.

After researching on the web, everybody uses this code to parse a string to a Document. I do not have any exception but after calling the method parse(), the value of doc is set to [#document: null] DeferredDocumentImpl.

I am using everything from the org.w3c.dom.

xml is a string that contains

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Header>
<context xmlns="urn:zimbra">
<session id="36" type="admin">36</session>
<change token="251"/>
</context>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<AuthResponse xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin">
<authToken>...</authToken>
<lifetime>...</lifetime>
<a n="zimbraIsDomainAdminAccount">false</a>
<session id="36" type="admin">36</session>
</AuthResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Here is how I built the string after a SOAP call:

String xml = indentXML(responseAuth.getSOAPPart().getContent());

What am I doing wrong?

This is what I am trying to do in a simple way:

StringBuilder soapResponse = new StringBuilder(...
...
...
);

        org.w3c.dom.Document doc = null;
        try {
            DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory
                    .newInstance();
            factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
            DocumentBuilder builder;
            builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            doc = (org.w3c.dom.Document) builder.parse(new InputSource(
                    new StringReader(soapResponse.toString())));
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        NodeList authTokenNodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("authToken");
        Node n = authTokenNodeList.item(0);
        String s = n.getNodeValue();

Answer 1

EDIT: Looking at your updated code, I think this is the problem:

String s = n.getNodeValue();

If you look at the docs for Node you'll see that getNodeValue() is defined to return null for elements... hence the problem. My sample code uses getTextContent() instead, which works fine.

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It looks like that's just going to defer expanding in-memory objects until they're required.

Have you tried calling methods on the returned document rather than just looking in the debugger? I suspect everything is actually working as intended. If not, please post a short but complete program which shows it misbehaving. (Note that in the sample you've given, you haven't even shown how builder is set, and you haven't used factory.)

EDIT: The code you've given works for me. Here's a quick-and-dirty - but importantly, complete - program (using Guava to load the XML file into a string) which shows the node being found successfully:

import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import java.io.*;
import com.google.common.base.*;
import com.google.common.io.*;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String xml = Files.toString(new File("test.xml"), Charsets.UTF_8);
        Node node = getAuthToken(xml);
        System.out.println(node.getTextContent());
    }

    private static Node getAuthToken(String xml) throws Exception {
        Document doc = getXMLFromString(xml);
        NodeList authTokenNodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("authToken");
        return authTokenNodeList.item(0);
    }

    public static Document getXMLFromString(String xml) throws Exception {
        Document doc = null;
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory
            .newInstance();
        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        DocumentBuilder builder;
        builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
        return doc;
    }
}