What do you want to do? Jennie Hall's article describes a mapping by adapter
between String in the XML and java.util.Date in the application. What do you
want on these two sides?
-W
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Charles Overbeck <
charles_overbeck_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to customize the mapping of dates/XMLGregorianCalendar during
> marshalling, simliar to what is described in this article:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/CoreJavaTechTips/entry/exchanging_data_with_xml_and
>
> Look for the text "Although JAXB can handle marshalling java.util.Date to
> XML"... for the relevant part of the article.
>
> The reason I can't follow the steps in that article exactly is that I am
> generating the JAXB beans from XML/.XSD, rather than having the XML
> generated from Java Beans. So I can't add annotations to the Java Beans as
> the article describes.
>
> I thought I could explicitly set an XML adapter to handle this on the
> marshaller, but I can't get it working. I hope and expect I am missing
> something obvious. Here is what I am basically doing:
>
> - I am using JAXB 2.1.10 (with Jersey if that matters, although I don't
> think it should).
>
> - My .XSD contains a line like this:
>
> <xsd:element name="activeSince" type="xsd:date" maxOccurs="1"
> minOccurs="0"></xsd:element>
>
> The generated bean then looks like this:
>
> @XmlSchemaType(name = "date")
> protected XMLGregorianCalendar activeSince;
>
> I create a Marshaller via the JAXBContext and try this (I know the
> marshaller is being used because I get errors if there are schema errors).
>
> marshaller.setSchema(mySchema);
> marshaller.setAdapter(new DateAdapter());
>
> And my DateAdapter looks like this:
>
> private static class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String,
> XMLGregorianCalendar> {
> @Override
> public String marshal(XMLGregorianCalendar v) throws Exception {
> return "hello"; // This will not be the real code obviously --
> just a test to see my adapter is being invoked
> }
> @Override
> public XMLGregorianCalendar unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
> return null; // I don't care about unmarshalling for this test
> }
> }
>
> What happens is that the default date marshalling occurs.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
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