(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
--
Andreas Loew
Java Architect
Sun Microsystems (Germany)
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(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
--
Andreas Loew
Java Architect
Sun Microsystems (Germany)