Line number of individual XML element while unmarshalling using jaxb - jaxb

Question

I have a class Person with attributes name and address. I display it in a XML. While unmarshalling from XML will it be possible to get line number for name and address separately.
I tried using Locator. But it does not provide individual line numbers.

Answer 1

The EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) and the JAXB reference implementation each have their own #XmlLocation annotations for supporting this use case. This allows you to store the location on the XML element corresponding to the object as an instance of org.xml.sax.Locator. Since I'm the MOXy lead, I will demonstrate using MOXy:
Person
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;
import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlLocation;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
#XmlRootElement
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Person {
#XmlJavaTypeAdapter(value=StringAdapter.class)
String name;
Address address;
#XmlLocation
Locator locator;
}
Address
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;
import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlLocation;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
public class Address {
#XmlJavaTypeAdapter(value=StringAdapter.class)
private String street;
#XmlLocation
Locator locator;
}
StringAdapter
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlLocation;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
public class StringAdapter extends XmlAdapter<StringAdapter.AdaptedString, String> {
public static class AdaptedString {
#XmlValue
public String value;
#XmlLocation
#XmlTransient
Locator locator;
}
#Override
public String unmarshal(AdaptedString v) throws Exception {
System.out.println(v.value + " " + v.locator.getLineNumber());
return v.value;
}
#Override
public AdaptedString marshal(String v) throws Exception {
AdaptedString adaptedString = new AdaptedString();
adaptedString.value = v;
return adaptedString;
}
}
jaxb.properties
To specify MOXy as your JAXB provider you need to include a file called jaxb.properties in the same package as your domain model with the following entry.
javax.xml.bind.context.factory=org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory
Demo
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
File xml = new File("src/forum14455596/input.xml");
Person person = (Person) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);
System.out.println("Person: " + person.locator.getLineNumber());
System.out.println("Address: " + person.address.locator.getLineNumber());
}
}
Output
Jane Doe 3
1 A Street 5
Person: 2
Address: 4

Answer 2

You could leverage a StAX StreamReaderDelegate and do something like the following:
Demo
import javax.xml.bind.*;
import javax.xml.stream.*;
import javax.xml.stream.util.StreamReaderDelegate;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);
XMLInputFactory xif = XMLInputFactory.newFactory();
StreamSource source = new StreamSource("src/forum14455596/input.xml");
XMLStreamReader xsr = xif.createXMLStreamReader(source);
xsr = new StreamReaderDelegate(xsr) {
#Override
public String getLocalName() {
String localName = super.getLocalName();
if(isStartElement()) {
System.out.println(localName + " " + this.getLocation().getLineNumber());
}
return localName;
}
};
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
unmarshaller.unmarshal(xsr);
}
}
Person
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
#XmlRootElement
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Person {
private String name;
private String address;
}
input.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<person>
<name>Jane Doe</name>
<address>1 A Street</address>
</person>
Output
person 2
name 3
address 4