This is an example of how to serialize a java Bean using the XMLEncoder. The XMLEncoder class is a complementary alternative to the ObjectOutputStream and can used to generate a textual representation of a JavaBean in the same way that the ObjectOutputStream can be used to create binary representation of Serializable objects. Serializing a java Bean using the XMLEncoder implies that you should:
- Create a simple class, like
Beanclass in the example. It has two String properties and getters and setters for the properties. - Create a FileOutputStream stream, initialized with a String name of the target xml file.
- Create a new XMLEncoder, with a new BufferedOutputStream to write data to the FileOutputStream.
- Use
writeObject(Object o)API method of XMLEncoder to write an XML representation of the specified object to the output. - Use
close()API method to close the output stream associated with this stream.
Let’s take a look at the code snippet that follows:
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 | package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;import java.beans.XMLEncoder;import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;import java.io.FileOutputStream;public class BeanXMLSerialization { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Bean bean = new Bean(); bean.setProperty1("value1"); bean.setProperty2(2); // Serialize object into XML XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder(new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("out.xml"))); encoder.writeObject(bean); encoder.close(); } public static class Bean { // Property property1 private String property1; // Property property2 private int property2; public String getProperty1() { return property1; } public void setProperty1(String property1) { this.property1 = property1; } public int getProperty2() { return property2; } public void setProperty2(int property2) { this.property2 = property2; } }} |
Output:
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <java version="1.6.0_05" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder"> <object class="com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core.BeanXMLSerialization$Bean"> <void property="property1"> <string>value1</string> </void> <void property="property2"> <int>2</int> </void> </object> </java> |
This was an example of how to serialize a java Bean using the XMLEncoder in Java.
