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

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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 the " existed.

Even though this is normally preferred, I need my output to match a legacy system. How do I force JAXB to NOT convert the HTML entities?

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Thank you for the replies. However, I never see the handler escape() called. Can you take a look and see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

package org.dc.model;

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

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;

import org.dc.generated.Shiporder;

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

public class PleaseWork {
    public void prettyPlease() throws JAXBException {
        Shiporder shipOrder = new Shiporder();
        shipOrder.setOrderid("Order's ID");
        shipOrder.setOrderperson("The woman said, \"How ya doin & stuff?\"");

        JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance("org.dc.generated");
        Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
        marshaller.setProperty(CharacterEscapeHandler.class.getName(),
                new CharacterEscapeHandler() {
                    @Override
                    public void escape(char[] ch, int start, int length,
                            boolean isAttVal, Writer out) throws IOException {
                        out.write("Called escape for characters = " + ch.toString());
                    }
                });
        marshaller.marshal(shipOrder, System.out);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        new PleaseWork().prettyPlease();
    }
}

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The output is this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<shiporder orderid="Order's ID">
    <orderperson>The woman said, &quot;How ya doin &amp; stuff?&quot;</orderperson>
</shiporder>

and as you can see, the callback is never displayed. (Once I get the callback being called, I'll worry about having it actually do what I want.)

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html-entities marshalling jaxb xml-serialization java
14 Answers

i found same issue i fixed this using xmlWriter in xmlWriter file there is one method isEscapeText() and setEscapeTest that is by default true if you dont want transformation between < to &lt that time you need to setEscapeTest(false); during marshalling

JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(your class);
Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();

marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);

// Create a filter that will remove the xmlns attribute
NamespaceFilter outFilter = new NamespaceFilter(null, false);

// Do some formatting, this is obviously optional and may effect
// performance
OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat();
format.setIndent(true);
format.setNewlines(true);

// Create a new org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter that will serve as the
// ContentHandler for our filter.
XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), format);
writer.setEscapeText(false); // <----------------- this line
// Attach the writer to the filter
outFilter.setContentHandler(writer);
// marshalling
marshaller.marshal(piaDto, outFilter);
marshaller.marshal(piaDto, System.out);

this change writer.setEscapeText(false); fixed my issue hope this changes helpful to you

user_57956800

I would advise against using CharacterEscapeHandler for the reasons mentioned above (it's an internal class). Instead you can use Woodstox and supply your own EscapingWriterFactory to a XMLStreamWriter. Something like:

XMLOutputFactory2 xmlOutputFactory = (XMLOutputFactory2)XMLOutputFactory.newFactory();
xmlOutputFactory.setProperty(XMLOutputFactory2.P_TEXT_ESCAPER, new EscapingWriterFactory() {

    @Override
    public Writer createEscapingWriterFor(Writer w, String enc) {
        return new EscapingWriter(w);
    }

    @Override
    public Writer createEscapingWriterFor(OutputStream out, String enc) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        return new EscapingWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, enc));
    }

});

marshaller.marshal(model, xmlOutputFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(out);

An example of how to write an EscapingWriter can be seen in CharacterEscapingTest.

user_4475220

After trying all the above solutions, finally came to the conclusion.

your marshaling logic through the custom escape handler.

final StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    final Class classType = fixml.getClass();
    final JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(classType);
    final Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
    final JAXBElement<T> fixmsg = new JAXBElement<T>(new QName(namespaceURI, localPart), classType, fixml);
    marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
    marshaller.setProperty(CharacterEscapeHandler.class.getName(), new JaxbCharacterEscapeHandler());
    marshaller.marshal(fixmsg, sw);
    return sw.toString();

And the custom escape handler is as follow:

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

public class JaxbCharacterEscapeHandler implements CharacterEscapeHandler {

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

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