Thinking about the toString() method in jaxb generated classes, one
obvious/easy approach is to generate one (eg via plugin) to make use of the
jarkata commons' ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(...) method.
How about the thought of defining a toXml() to return the xml string of the
current jaxb pojo instance ? AFAIK, such toXml() can be easily/nicely done
using XStream ... But how about the idea of using jaxb marshaller instead ?
Is speed or validation a concern ? (XStream does no validation.)
In both instances the generated source would likely to incur extra jar
dependencies.
I don't mind to integrate these extra methods into the fluent-api plugin, if
this is considered sensible.
Thoughts ?
Hanson
On 9/13/06, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_sun.com> wrote:
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> Hanson Char wrote:
> > Write your own jaxb plugin ?
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> +1. And if someone is willing to work on it, please let us know so that
> we can host it at http://jaxb2-commons.dev.java.net/
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> --
> Kohsuke Kawaguchi
> Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com
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