Note: I'm the EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) lead and a member of the JAXB (JSR-222) expert group.
Off hand I do not know the exact config for CXF, but below I have provided some links to using MOXy with Spring. Please feel free to contact me, and I can help you implement this:
My problem is that now I have a new (additional) REST web service to
provide and I would like to use a different JAX-B XML binding for this
new web service. I understand that MOXy can do this, but I am unable
to figure out how to configure a CXF end point so that it will use
MOXy for marshalling/unmarshalling (and furthermore how to tell Moxy
about my custom XML mapping file).
When using MOXy with a JAX-RS implementation you can use a ContextResolver to bootstrap from MOXy's external mapping file:
package blog.bindingfile.jaxrs;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.*;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory;
import blog.bindingfile.Customer;
@Provider
@Produces({"application/xml", "application/json"})
public class CustomerContextResolver implements ContextResolver<JAXBContext> {
private JAXBContext jc;
public CustomerContextResolver() {
ClassLoader cl = Customer.class.getClassLoader();
InputStream bindings =
cl.getResourceAsStream("blog/bindingfile/binding.xml");
try {
Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<String, Object>(1);
props.put(JAXBContextFactory.ECLIPSELINK_OXM_XML_KEY, bindings);
jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(new Class[] {Customer.class} , props);
} catch(JAXBException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
} finally {
try {
bindings.close();
} catch(IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
public JAXBContext getContext(Class<?> clazz) {
if(Customer.class == clazz) {
return jc;
}
return null;
}
}
For a Complext Example
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I also would like this new web service to return either XML or JSON
depending on the Accept header. I also have read that MOXy 2.4+ can
handle that too!
Yes, JSON binding is being added to EclipseLink 2.4. To leverage this in your application it should be a simple matter of creating a MessageBodyReader and a MessageBodyWriter:
package org.example;
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.ws.rs.*;
import javax.ws.rs.core.*;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.*;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
@Provider
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public class MOXyJSONProvider implements
MessageBodyReader<Object>, MessageBodyWriter<Object>{
@Context
protected Providers providers;
public boolean isReadable(Class<?> type, Type genericType,
Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
return true;
}
public Object readFrom(Class<Object> type, Type genericType,
Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType,
MultivaluedMap<String, String> httpHeaders, InputStream entityStream)
throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
try {
Class<?> domainClass = getDomainClass(genericType);
Unmarshaller u = getJAXBContext(domainClass, mediaType).createUnmarshaller();
u.setProperty("eclipselink.media-type", mediaType.toString());
u.setProperty("eclipselink.json.include-root", false);
return u.unmarshal(new StreamSource(entityStream), domainClass).getValue();
} catch(JAXBException jaxbException) {
throw new WebApplicationException(jaxbException);
}
}
public boolean isWriteable(Class<?> type, Type genericType,
Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
return true;
}
public void writeTo(Object object, Class<?> type, Type genericType,
Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType,
MultivaluedMap<String, Object> httpHeaders,
OutputStream entityStream) throws IOException,
WebApplicationException {
try {
Class<?> domainClass = getDomainClass(genericType);
Marshaller m = getJAXBContext(domainClass, mediaType).createMarshaller();
m.setProperty("eclipselink.media-type", mediaType.toString());
m.setProperty("eclipselink.json.include-root", false);
m.marshal(object, entityStream);
} catch(JAXBException jaxbException) {
throw new WebApplicationException(jaxbException);
}
}
public long getSize(Object t, Class<?> type, Type genericType,
Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
return -1;
}
private JAXBContext getJAXBContext(Class<?> type, MediaType mediaType)
throws JAXBException {
ContextResolver<JAXBContext> resolver
= providers.getContextResolver(JAXBContext.class, mediaType);
JAXBContext jaxbContext;
if(null == resolver || null == (jaxbContext = resolver.getContext(type))) {
return JAXBContext.newInstance(type);
} else {
return jaxbContext;
}
}
private Class<?> getDomainClass(Type genericType) {
if(genericType instanceof Class) {
return (Class<?>) genericType;
} else if(genericType instanceof ParameterizedType) {
return (Class<?>) ((ParameterizedType) genericType).getActualTypeArguments()[0];
} else {
return null;
}
}
}
You may also be able to create an extension of JSONProvider:
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