How to marshall a string using JAXB that sometimes contains XML content and sometimes does not?

Question

Consider this example -

I have a class called Report that has a field of type Message. The Message class has a field called \"body\" which is a string. \"body\" can

Answer 1

3 different solutions 1), 2) 3), here below :

1) Following post is a the description of your solution Loresh :

http://anna-safronova.livejournal.com/2524.html?thread=9180

This is still missing limitations details.

• With embeeded html, we need a block

• JAXB's dependancy

com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler

Needs import jaxb-impl for compilation / and may be required for excution, e.g.

com.sun.xml.bind
jaxb-impl  
 2.2.4

• Limitation : this solution is Container-specific and may not run because of class-loading policy.

2) Another similar approach is JDK's rt.jar dependancy

com.sun.xml.internal.bind.CharacterEscapeHandler

http://theopentutorials.com/tutorials/java/jaxb/jaxb-marshalling-and-unmarshalling-cdata-block/

Same limitation / dependends on target JDK, and some tweaks on Eclipse/Maven are necessary (bad alternative / My opinion)

3) Finally, the best solution was found on another post of Reg Whitton :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12637295/560410

and this is the detailed reciepe :

http://javacoalface.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/outputting-cdata-sections-with-jaxb.html

Worked perfect for me !