I've been trying to figure out how to render POJO's into HTML documents
for ReST API browsability. I've since discovered a mechanism that I
think may just work for me. I'll use JAXB to marshall to XML, then (on
detection of a request for text/html listed first in the accept header)
use JAXP to transform XML to HTML using an XSLT style sheet.
John
On 3/22/2010 12:42 PM, Markus Karg wrote:
> I can imagine that JAXB would be a perfect fit for solutions that natively
> deal with documents, since HTML obviously is THE description for documents.
> But I actually wonder what the sense of JAXB-to-HTML shall be like in a
> generic way? I mean, how to encode a "chair", "fruit", or "car" into a HTML
> document? Ain't it more the case (like Paul says) that you like to view
> *descriptions* of objects (i. e. XML ---> XSL ---> HTML) instead of objects
> themselves?
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM]
>> Sent: Montag, 22. März 2010 11:30
>> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
>> Subject: Re: [Jersey] marshalling to html templates
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 6:18 PM, John Calcote wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone ever considered using JAXB and HTML templates to marshall
>>> Java objects to/from HTML?
>>>
>>>
>> There is nothing specifically in JAXB support that, so it would
>> require some addition stuff. An XML style sheet would IMHO be the best
>> fit, XML to HTML or XHTML, rather than code that operates on the JAXB
>> related classes.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Seems like a useful thing to do, and I've got a use case for it at
>>> the moment. I have a ReST webapp and client that exchange XML
>>> messages. For testing and browsability, it would be nice to support
>>> text/html as an accept header mimetype from the browser.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>> That should be possible if you reference a style sheet with the XML.
>> Browsers should be able to process the XML and apply the style sheet.
>>
>> In JAXB one can set the style sheet on the marshaller using the
>> property:
>>
>> https://jaxb.dev.java.net/nonav/2.1.10/docs/
>> vendorProperties.html#xmlheader
>> http://n2.nabble.com/Marshaling-JAXB-objects-including-stylesheet-
>> information-td2429726.html
>>
>> In JAX-RS/Jersey you can supply a ContextResolver<Marshaller> for the
>> JAXB objects.
>>
>> Two alternatives if the server supports such style sheet
>> transformation:
>>
>> - write a message body writer supporting JAXB and text/html and reuse
>> the JAXB XML support via the injected Providers interface.
>>
>> - write a template provider such that one can specify the style sheet
>> as a view.
>>
>> return new Viewable("mystylesheet.xml", myJaxbInstance);
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
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