java - How to serialize and de-serialize objects using JAXB?

Question

I have an issue. I want to convert an object into another object using JAXB. As in, I have a class com.home.Student, and another class com.school.Student, both have same arguments, in fact both are same (copy paste), but different package. I want to perform the conversion between them using JAXB.

How to do that, please help me.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5189690/how-to-serialize-and-de-serialize-objects-using-jaxb

Answer 1

You could do the following.

Note:

• It does not require that you ever materialize the data as XML, by leveraging JAXBSource.
• It does not require any annotations on your object model.

com.home.Student

package com.home;

public class Student {

    private String name;
    private Status status;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Status getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(Status status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

}

com.home.Status

package com.home;

public enum Status {

    FULL_TIME("F"),
    PART_TIME("P");

    private final String code;

    Status(String code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public String getCode() {
        return code;
    }

}

com.school.Student

package com.school;

public class Student {

    private String name;
    private Status status;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Status getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(Status status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

}

com.school.Status

package com.school;

public enum Status {

    FULL_TIME("F"),
    PART_TIME("P");

    private final String code;

    Status(String code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public String getCode() {
        return code;
    }

}

com.example.Demo;

package com.example;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
import javax.xml.bind.util.JAXBSource;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        com.home.Student studentA = new com.home.Student();
        studentA.setName("Jane Doe");
        studentA.setStatus(com.home.Status.FULL_TIME);

        JAXBContext contextA = JAXBContext.newInstance(com.home.Student.class);
        JAXBElement<com.home.Student> jaxbElementA = new JAXBElement(new QName("student"), com.home.Student.class, studentA);
        JAXBSource sourceA = new JAXBSource(contextA, jaxbElementA);

        JAXBContext contextB = JAXBContext.newInstance(com.school.Student.class);
        Unmarshaller unmarshallerB = contextB.createUnmarshaller();
        JAXBElement<com.school.Student> jaxbElementB = unmarshallerB.unmarshal(sourceA, com.school.Student.class);

        com.school.Student studentB = jaxbElementB.getValue();
        System.out.println(studentB.getName());
        System.out.println(studentB.getStatus().getCode());
    }

}