Get XML from HttpServletRequest and use into endpoint

Question

I would like to get the XML data from request and response and use it into Rest controller. I tried this:

@RestController()
    public class HomeController {         


        

Answer 1

You dont need to do anything special here, Spring framework will do it for you. All you need is:

1. Create a Pojo or Bean which represents your XML data.

2. Add xml data format dependency to Gradle/Maven which will bind the request xml to your pojo.

    compile group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat', name: 'jackson-dataformat-xml', version: '2.9.9'
   

3. Tell your request handler to accept XML like this:

   @RequestMapping(value = "/xmlexample", method = RequestMethod.POST,consumes = "application/xml;charset=UTF-8") 
   public final boolean transactionHandler(@Valid @RequestBody Transaction transaction) {
       log.debug("Received transaction request with data {}", transaction);
       return true;
   }
   

And voila, you will have your transaction bean populated with your XML data.