read Xml file with JAXB

Question

I want to read a xml file (like below) but I get an Execption. Could you please help me how can I fix this problem?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=
"file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mojalal/Desktop/FirstXSD.xml">
<log>
    <property key="firstKey" value="firstValue"></property>
    <property key="secoundKey" value="secoundKey"></property>
    <property key="thirdKey" value="thirdValue"></property>  
</log>

<env>
    <property key="firstenv" value="fo"></property>
    <property key="123" value="333"></property> 
</env>
</config>

and this is my code that I want to read xml file:

    public class ReadXMLFilewithJAXB {
private static List<Property> customer;

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static void main(String[] args) {

 try {

    File file = new File("c:\\FirstXML.xml");
    JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Log.class);
    Unmarshaller jaxbUnmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
    customer = (List<Property>) jaxbUnmarshaller.unmarshal(file);
 } catch (JAXBException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }

}

}

Finally this is the Exception that I get:

javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"config"). Expected elements are (none)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext.handleEvent(UnmarshallingContext.java:631)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportError(Loader.java:236)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportError(Loader.java:231)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportUnexpectedChildElement(Loader.java:105)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext$DefaultRootLoader.childElement(UnmarshallingContext.java:1038)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext._startElement(UnmarshallingContext.java:467)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext.startElement(UnmarshallingContext.java:448)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.SAXConnector.startElement(SAXConnector.java:137)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:501)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:400)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDriver.scanRootElementHook(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:626)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:3103)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:922)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal0(UnmarshallerImpl.java:200)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:173)
    at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.java:137)
    at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.java:142)
    at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.java:151)
    at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.java:169)
    at firstExample.ReadXMLFilewithJAXB.main(ReadXMLFilewithJAXB.java:21)

Env POJO Class:

public class Env {
    List<Property> properties2;


    public Env() {
    }


    public Env(List<Property> properties2) {
        super();
        this.properties2 = properties2;
    }


    public List<Property> getProperties2() {
        return properties2;
    }

    public void setProperties2(List<Property> properties2) {
        this.properties2 = properties2;
    }

LOg POJO Class:

@XmlRootElement
public class Log {
    List<Property> properties=new ArrayList<Property>();;

    public Log(){

    }

    public List<Property> getProperties() {
        return properties;
    }

    public void setProperties(List<Property> properties) {
        this.properties = properties;
    }

Answer 1

javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"config"). Expected elements are (none)
    at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext.handleEvent(UnmarshallingContext.java:631)

You need to ensure that you associate a class with the root element of the XML document using @XmlRootElement or @XmlElementDecl (see: http://blog.bdoughan.com/2012/07/jaxb-and-root-elements.html). Alternatively you can use one of the unmarshal methods that take a Class parameter to tell JAXB what type of object you are unmarshalling.

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Domain Model (Config)

I would recommend having a domain class like the following from which you could obtain the two lists of Property objects.

import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;

@XmlRootElement
public class Config {

    private List<Property> logProperties = new ArrayList<Property>();
    private List<Property> envProperties = new ArrayList<Property>();

    @XmlElementWrapper(name="log")
    @XmlElement(name="property")
    public List<Property> getLogProperties() {
        return logProperties;
    }

    @XmlElementWrapper(name="env")
    @XmlElement(name="property")
    public List<Property> getEnvProperties() {
        return envProperties;
    }

}

Demo

import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.*;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Config.class);

        Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
        File xml = new File("src/forum17059227/input.xml");
        Config config = (Config) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);

        Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION, "file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mojalal/Desktop/FirstXSD.xml");
        marshaller.marshal(config, System.out);
    }

}

input.xml/Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mojalal/Desktop/FirstXSD.xml">
    <env>
        <property key="firstenv" value="fo"/>
        <property key="123" value="333"/>
    </env>
    <log>
        <property key="firstKey" value="firstValue"/>
        <property key="secoundKey" value="secoundKey"/>
        <property key="thirdKey" value="thirdValue"/>
    </log>
</config>