Unmarshaller and schema in JAXB

Question

I have application that can save file in various formats (all of them is xml). So I should solve problem with determination in what format file have been saved. So, I see 2 solutions

• different formats have different schemas, so I could determine it by them. I set schemas in way that I get from here

marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION, "bla-bla.xsd");

so I suppose I can get it using unmarshaller.getProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION)

but it throwing

javax.xml.bind.PropertyException: jaxb.noNamespaceSchemaLocation

and getSchema() return null So, how can I get schema location?

• Specifying different adapters for different beans using setAdapter(Class<A> type, A adapter) method

What way is preferable? If first, then how can I get schema location label?

upd code example suppose we have bean

@XmlRootElement
public class Foo{
    String bar;
    public String getBar() {return bar; }
    public void setBar(String bar) {this.bar = bar;}
}

and code that generates schema, saves Foo's instances and loads then.

public class Test {
    final static String schemaLoc = "fooschema.xsd";


    public static void write(File file, Foo foo, Schema schema) throws Throwable {
        XMLEventWriter xsw = null;
        try{
            JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);
            XMLOutputFactory xof = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance();
            OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
            xsw = xof.createXMLEventWriter(out);
            Marshaller m = context.createMarshaller();
            m.setSchema(schema);    //schema setted
            System.out.println(">>>marchal : " + m.getSchema());    //check it
            m.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
            m.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION, schemaLoc);
            m.marshal(foo, xsw);
        } finally{
             xsw.close();
        }
    }

    public static Foo load(File file) throws Throwable {
        JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);
        Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();


        System.out.println("unmarshaller schema:" + unmarshaller.getSchema());  //I need get it here
    //  System.out.println("schema_prop:" + unmarshaller.getProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION));

        InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file));
        XMLEventReader xer = XMLInputFactory.newInstance()
                .createXMLEventReader(in);
        return Foo.class.cast(unmarshaller.unmarshal(xer));
    }

    private static File createSchema(String schemaLocation) throws Throwable{
        final File target = new File(schemaLocation);
        if(!target.exists()){
            JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);
            SchemaOutputResolver sor = new SchemaOutputResolver() {
                public Result createOutput(String namespaceURI, String suggestedFileName)
                throws IOException {
                    StreamResult result = new StreamResult(target);
                    result.setSystemId(target.toURI().toURL().toString());
                    return result;
                }
            };
            jaxbContext.generateSchema(sor);
        }
        return target;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
        createSchema(schemaLoc);
        File file = new File("temp.xml");
        Foo foo = new Foo();
        foo.setBar("test bar");
        SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
        Schema schema = factory.newSchema(createSchema(schemaLoc));
        write(file, foo, schema);
        System.out.println("result " + load(file).getBar());
    }

}

schema that generates

      <xs:element name="foo" type="foo"/>

      <xs:complexType name="foo">
        <xs:sequence>
          <xs:element name="bar" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
        </xs:sequence>
      </xs:complexType>
    </xs:schema>

our temp file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<foo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="fooschema.xsd">
<bar>test bar</bar></foo>

as we see, there is

xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="fooschema.xsd"

How I can get this text using JAXB?

Answer 1

I would leverage a StAX parser to get this information (see example below). Create an XMLStreamReader on the input. Advance the XMLStreamReader to the root element using the nextTag() method. Then grab the noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute of the root element. Then pass the XMLStreamReader to the unmarshal(XMLStreamReader) method on Unmarshaller.

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;

public class Demo {

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

        XMLInputFactory xif = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("input.xml");
        XMLStreamReader xsr = xif.createXMLStreamReader(fis);
        xsr.nextTag();
        String noNamespaceSchemaLocation = xsr.getAttributeValue(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_INSTANCE_NS_URI, "noNamespaceSchemaLocation");
        System.out.println(noNamespaceSchemaLocation);

        Unmarshaller um = context.createUnmarshaller();
        Categories response = (Categories) um.unmarshal(xsr);
    }
}