Java-to-xml transformation

[mlog]

Hi.

I am trying to transform a java class to an xml document with Smooks and Freemarker template. I looked for any example, and found only one about java-to-xml default transformation and a lot about xml-to-anything with templating. But no one java-to-xml with templating. Then I played with example of default transformation and found out that I have to use fully qualified name of my class as Smooks resource selector and element name. Is it wrong? But now, I couldn’t use it in Freemarker template because the dots have another meaning inside “${}” construction.

So the question is – how to use java-to-xml Smooks transformation with Freemarker template?

This is my smooks-config.xml file. It works with static template (without “${}”). It is not useful, though.

<smooks-resource-list
   xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd"
   xmlns:ftl="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/freemarker-1.1.xsd"
>
 
   <params>
      <param name="stream.filter.type">SAX</param>
      <param name="default.serialization.on">false</param>
   </params>

   <resource-config selector="fully.qulified.object.name">
      <resource>org.milyn.delivery.DomModelCreator</resource>
   </resource-config>

   <ftl:freemarker applyOnElement="fully.qulified.object.name">
      <ftl:template><!--<object field=”${name.field}”/>--></ftl:template>
   </ftl:freemarker>
 
</smooks-resource-list>

Thanks in advance.

[mlog]

I’m afraid that I didn’t clearly explain my problem. Ok then, I’ll try again.

I have an action that produces a domain specific java class. I need to transform it to an xml document. I am trying to do that with Smooks. My class looks like this:

package my.namespace.domain;

class className {
      private String field;
      private anotherClassName innerClass;
}

The default Smooks transformation (just like java-to-xml Smooks’ example) produces this result:

<my.namespace.domain.className>
      <field>field value</field>
      <innerClass>
            <!-- inner class fields -->
      </innerClass>
</my.namespace.domain.className>

So the name of the root element is fully qualified java class name. Now, I can use Freemarker templates like ${innerClass.field} but cannot like ${my.namespace.domain.className.field}. That is I cannot use direct descendants of the root element in my template.

Yes, I could wrap my class to another one (and I did for a while) but it isn’t the right way, is it?