I should also add, that on top of that, I need to be able to pass at
runtime an XMLAdapter that will override this functionality,
so that String 0 or 1 can be mapped to any other textual
representation :-/
Y.
On 23 Sep 2009, at 17:27, Ioannis Mavroukakis wrote:
> No the XML will be a String 0 or 1, but what I want to transform it
> to, is String S or N respectively :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Yiannis
>
> On 23 Sep 2009, at 17:15, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
>
>> If the XML is a single letter, then parse must convert from string
>> to boolean, print vice versa. And the javaType name is
>> java.lang.Boolean.
>>
>> -W
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Ioannis Mavroukakis <imavroukakis_at_gameaccount.com
>> > wrote:
>> Hello fellow listers,
>>
>> I've got the following conundrum I'd like some help with.
>>
>> Assume this schema (shortened for brevity)
>>
>> <xs:element name="Foo">
>> <xs:complexType>
>> <xs:complexContent>
>> <xs:attribute name="bar" type="xs:string"/>
>> </xs:complexContent>
>> </xs:complexType>
>> </xs:element>
>>
>> In reality, bar is a boolean attribute (stay with me) which I need
>> for business reasons to convert to a single character lexical
>> equivalent of true/false in another language, for transport over a
>> WSDL call.
>>
>> I thought that I could perhaps use a custom binding to do my biding
>> and extend that for different use cases hence
>>
>> <bindings node="/xsd:schema/xsd:element[@name='Foo']/
>> xsd:complexType/xsd:complexContent/xsd:attribute[@name='bar']">
>> <property>
>> <baseType>
>> <javaType name="java.lang.String"
>>
>> parseMethod="com.transform.PartnerTransform.parseBooleanToString"
>>
>> printMethod="com.transform.PartnerTransform.printStringToBoolean" />
>> </baseType>
>> </property>
>> </bindings>
>>
>> However I quickly realised that my cunning plan to assign another
>> XMLAdapter while initialising the marshaller for each use case was
>> blown out of the water
>> as the adapter is randomly named by xjc, and touching the generated
>> classes is a no-no.
>>
>> Therefore, the grand question here is , is there some arcane way to
>> make jaxb do that, or should I be looking at a different solution?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Yiannis
>>
>>
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