Can I force JAXB not to convert " into ", for example, when marshalling to XML?

Question

I have an Object that is being marshalled to XML using JAXB. One element contains a String that includes quotes (\"). The resulting XML has " where t

Answer 1

Solution my teammate found:

PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(xmlFile));
DataWriter dataWriter = new DataWriter(printWriter, "UTF-8", DumbEscapeHandler.theInstance);
marshaller.marshal(request, dataWriter);

Instead of passing the xmlFile to marshal(), pass the DataWriter which knows both the encoding and an appropriate escape handler, if any.

Note: Since DataWriter and DumbEscapeHandler are both within the com.sun.xml.internal.bind.marshaller package, you must bootstrap javac.

Answer 2

The simplest way, when using sun's Marshaller implementation is to provide your own implementation of the CharacterEscapeEncoder which does not escape anything.

    Marshaller m = jcb.createMarshaller();
m.setProperty(
    "com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler",
    new NullCharacterEscapeHandler());

With

public class NullCharacterEscapeHandler implements CharacterEscapeHandler {

    public NullCharacterEscapeHandler() {
        super();
    }


    public void escape(char[] ch, int start, int length, boolean isAttVal, Writer writer) throws IOException {
        writer.write( ch, start, length );
    }
}

Answer 3

I have just made my custom handler as a class like this:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

import com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler;

public class XmlCharacterHandler implements CharacterEscapeHandler {

    public void escape(char[] buf, int start, int len, boolean isAttValue,
            Writer out) throws IOException {
        StringWriter buffer = new StringWriter();

        for (int i = start; i < start + len; i++) {
            buffer.write(buf[i]);
        }

        String st = buffer.toString();

        if (!st.contains("CDATA")) {
            st = buffer.toString().replace("&", "&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;")
                .replace(">", "&gt;").replace("'", "&apos;")
                .replace("\"", "&quot;");

        }
        out.write(st);
        System.out.println(st);
    }

}

in the marshaller method simply call:

marshaller.setProperty(CharacterEscapeHandler.class.getName(),
                new XmlCharacterHandler());

it works fine.

Answer 4

This works for me after reading other posts:

javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext jc = javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(object);
marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();         marshaller.setProperty(javax.xml.bind.Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.setProperty(javax.xml.bind.Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "UTF-8");                   marshaller.setProperty(CharacterEscapeHandler.class.getName(), new CustomCharacterEscapeHandler());


public static class CustomCharacterEscapeHandler implements CharacterEscapeHandler {
        /**
         * Escape characters inside the buffer and send the output to the Writer.
         * (prevent <b> to be converted &lt;b&gt; but still ok for a<5.)
         */
        public void escape(char[] buf, int start, int len, boolean isAttValue, Writer out) throws IOException {
            if (buf != null){
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                for (int i = start; i < start + len; i++) {
                    char ch = buf[i];

                    //by adding these, it prevent the problem happened when unmarshalling
                    if (ch == '&') {
                        sb.append("&amp;");
                        continue;
                    }

                    if (ch == '"' && isAttValue) {
                        sb.append("&quot;");
                        continue;
                    }

                    if (ch == '\'' && isAttValue) {
                        sb.append("&apos;");
                        continue;
                    }


                    // otherwise print normally
                    sb.append(ch);
                }

                //Make corrections of unintended changes
                String st = sb.toString();

                st = st.replace("&amp;quot;", "&quot;")
                       .replace("&amp;lt;", "&lt;")
                       .replace("&amp;gt;", "&gt;")
                       .replace("&amp;apos;", "&apos;")
                       .replace("&amp;amp;", "&amp;");

                out.write(st);
            }
        }
    }

Answer 5

interesting but with strings you can try out

Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
marshaller.marshal(data, sw);
sw.toString();

at least for me this do not escape quotes

Answer 6

For some reason I have no time to find out, it worked for me when setting

marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "utf-8");

As opposed to using "UTF-8" or "Unicode"

I suggest you try them, and as @Javatar said, check them dumping to file using:

marshaller.marshal(shipOrder, new File("<test_file_path>"));

and opening it with a a decent text editor like notepad++