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== Working with SOAP Attachments ==
 
== Working with SOAP Attachments ==
  
If you are using EclipseLink MOXy in a Web Services environment, certain types of binary data may be created as an Attachment, instead of written directly into an XML element or attribute.
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If you are using EclipseLink MOXy in a Web Services environment, certain types of binary data may be created as an MTOM/XOP Attachment, instead of written directly into an XML element or attribute.

Revision as of 15:45, 29 June 2011

EclipseLink MOXy

Binary Types

There are a few extra things to consider when mapping to fields of type byte[] or Byte[].


Binary Formats - Base64 and Hex

EclipseLink supports marshalling and unmarshalling binary data in two different representation formats: base64Binary (default) and hexBinary. You can specify the desired binary format using the @XmlSchemaType annotation, or <xml-schema-type> element in EclipseLink OXM. The example below shows the result of marshalling the same byte[] to each of these formats.


Annotations

package example;
 
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
 
@XmlRootElement
public class BinaryData {
 
   @XmlSchemaType(name="hexBinary")
   public byte[] hexBytes;
 
   @XmlSchemaType(name="base64Binary")
   public byte[] base64Bytes;
 
}


EclipseLink OXM

...
<java-type name="example.BinaryData">
    <xml-root-element/>
    <java-attributes>
        <xml-element java-attribute="hexBytes">
            <xml-schema-type name="hexBinary"/>
        </xml-element>
        <xml-element java-attribute="base64Bytes">
            <xml-schema-type name="base64Binary"/>
        </xml-element>
    </java-attributes>
</java-type>
...


BinaryData b = new BinaryData();
b.hexBytes = new byte[] {2,4,8,16,32,64};
b.base64Bytes = b.hexBytes;
 
jaxbContext.createMarshaller().marshal(b, System.out);


Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<binaryData>
   <hexBytes>020308102040</hexBytes>
   <base64Bytes>AgMIECBA</base64Bytes>
</binaryData>


byte[] versus Byte[]

Unlike other Java primitive/wrapper types, Eclipselink differentiates between byte[] (primitive) and Byte[] (wrapper) data types. By default, byte[] will marshal to an element or attribute of type base64Binary, whereas Byte[] will marshal each byte as its own element, as illustrated by the following example:


package example;
 
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
 
@XmlRootElement
public class BinaryData {
 
   public byte[] primitiveBytes;
   public Byte[] byteObjects;
 
}


BinaryData b = new BinaryData();
b.primitiveBytes = new byte[] {34,45,56,67,78,89,89,34,23,12,12,11,2};
b.byteObjects = new Byte[] {23,1,112,12,1,64,1,14,3,2};
 
jaxbContext.createMarshaller().marshal(b, System.out);


Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<binaryData>
   <primitiveBytes>Ii04Q05ZWSIXDAwLAg==</primitiveBytes>
   <byteObjects>23</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>1</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>112</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>12</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>1</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>64</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>1</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>14</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>3</byteObjects>
   <byteObjects>2</byteObjects>
</binaryData>


Working with SOAP Attachments

If you are using EclipseLink MOXy in a Web Services environment, certain types of binary data may be created as an MTOM/XOP Attachment, instead of written directly into an XML element or attribute.

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