Have you tried using Provider<Source> where there is no data binding
involved.
Other option is to use Provider<Message> in case you want to deal with
headers etc.
Jitu
Andreas Loew wrote:
> All,
>
> as I did not receive any replies so far: Anybody out there who can
> comment on the questions I've raised below?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Andreas
>
>
> Andreas Loew schrieb:
>> (Apologies for cross-posting to JAX-WS and JAXB - I simply was unable
>> to determine which list would be the most appropriate place to post
>> this question to...)
>>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have to deal with a very specific Web Service where an "outer"
>> request document (i.e. the SOAP body) kind of wraps a nested "inner"
>> XML document fragment as an xsd:any type.
>>
>> I do know that I can annotate xsd:any using the jaxb:dom annotation
>> in order to get the wrapped document being converted into a W3C DOM
>> instance.
>>
>> As these inner documents may become quite large (several MBs), from a
>> memory consumption and performance perspective, I'd prefer not to
>> create a DOM representation for the inner fragment, but rather get
>> access to the "plain XML source", such as by getting direct access to
>> the Unmarshaller's document source - ideally, the StAX
>> XMLStreamReader or XMLEventReader.
>>
>> Unfortunately,
>> https://jaxb.dev.java.net/guide/Avoid_strong_databinding.html
>> for now seems just a work in progress... :-)
>>
>> So my question is:
>>
>> Is there any way to get access to the original document source for
>> the inner fragment, while still using JAX-WS/JAXB2 to map the overall
>> document in order to easily process the outer part's content:
>>
>> - to avoid mapping/binding of the inner fragment to Java classes
>> - to avoid creation of a DOM tree representing the inner fragment as
>> well
>> - but to "simply" get access to the original source/fragment (as
>> being internally provided to the Unmarshaller by the JAX-WS
>> implementation)
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any help with this!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
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