Anyone know how to deserialize xml into java object?

[Ivan Cheung <iv...@pobox.com>]

Hi,

I have web service that I need to integrate with, the service is unable and
slow.

I am trying to mock it out (by building a simulator) so in case it is down,
we can use the simulator and our dev is not affected.

I have used wsdl2java to generate the client stub, I was able to serialized
the response from the web service into an xml file using the following code

        ImplRetrieveOfferAndProductCon
figurationOutput responseFromServer = <stub.calling web service...>
        // serialize object
        {
            // log the output
            java.lang.String mechType = "";
            java.lang.Class _javaType =
ImplRetrieveOfferAndProductConfigurationOutput.class;
            javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType = new
javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://datatypes.ordering.ws.impl.css.amdocs.com",
"ImplRetrieveOfferAndProductConfigurationOutput");
            org.apache.axis.encoding.Serializer serializer =
ImplRetrieveOfferAndProductConfigurationOutput.getSerializer(mechType,
_javaType, _xmlType);

            BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter ( new
FileWriter("response.xml"));

            SerializationContext serializationContext = new
SerializationContext(writer);
            long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
            try
            {
                serializationContext.setPretty(true);

                serializer.serialize(_xmlType, new AttributesImpl(),
responseFromServer, serializationContext);
                long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                log.debug("serialization done, it takes " +
(endTime-startTime)/1000 + " sec");
                writer.flush();
                writer.close();
            }
            catch (final Exception e)
            {
                long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                log.debug("serialization fail, it takes " +
(endTime-startTime)/1000 + " sec");
            }
        }

The problem I have now is I can't find a way to deserialize the object from
the xml file ( I have to add the soap envelope to the xml by hand since
without that , the DeserializationContext.parse() method is throwing
exception).

If I can overcome the problem then I will be able build a simulator which
should speed up our development.

I try to use the BeanDeserializer and I was not successful, here is what I
have tried, the parse method is parsing the doc but desrializer.getValue()
is returning an object with nothing (the instance variables are all null ,
but the xml file is fully popualted) in it. Here is the sample code that I
come up.

        // deserialize object
        {
            long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

            org.xml.sax.InputSource is = new org.xml.sax.InputSource(new
FileReader("response.xml"));
            String messageType = "";
            org.apache.axis.MessageContext messageContext = null;

            org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext dc = new
DeserializationContext(is, messageContext, messageType ) ;
            dc.parse();

            org.apache.axis.encoding.Deserializer desrializer =
dc.getDeserializerForClass(ImplRetrieveOfferAndProductConfigurationOutput.class);

            ImplRetrieveOfferAndProductConfigurationOutput roapcFromFile=
(ImplRetrieveOfferAndProductConfigurationOutput)desrializer.getValue();
            long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
            log.debug("deserialization done, it takes " +
(endTime-startTime)/1000 + " sec");

        }

Any help / pointer on how to deserialize object (class generated from
wsdl2java)  from xml would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ivan