JAXB Marshalling and Character Escape Hander

[rodders-miller]

I have a JAX-B annotated class that contains an String element that has the contents of a CDATA section

e.g.

<![CDATA[ SOME CDATA HERE ]]>

When utilising the JAX-B marshalling availible in camel via

JaxbDataFormat jaxbFormatter = new JaxbDataFormat( "location of schema");

from("some URI").marshal(jaxbFormatter);

The output appears as character escaped e.g.:

&lt;![CDATA[SOME CDATA HERE]] ]]&gt;

Previously in plain java I have got round the problem by using a charater escape handler:

JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(myClass.class);     

Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();               

// Add an handler to prevent the CDATA section from being removed

marshaller.setProperty( "com.sun.xml.bind.characterEscapeHandler", new CdataCharacterEscapeHandle());  

java.io.StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

marshaller.marshal(alarm, sw);

Is there a mechanism to set properties on the marshaller used in Camel, or is there an alternative sollution that I can utilised in Camel to marshall my CDATA?

[davsclaus]

Hi

I dont think we have this easily support out of the box in camel-jaxb component.

Is the class CdataCharacterEscapeHandle a handler you write yourself or where is the class provided if not?

[rodders-miller]

Thanks for the response -

The handler is a custmer handler I wrote myself - it is very simple and basically leaves the content unchange.

This handler therefore only works if I assume that no content needs escaping - obviosuly not something that would work in general.

My scheme also assumes the use of the Sun implementation of Jax-b and I beleive other implementations have different mechanism for handling the same - so I guess it would be difficult to support in Camel.

Is there a way of inserting the CDATA section after the marshalling into the XML using XPATH or similar within the Camel route?

[arun.parihar]

I am using 7.1.0.fuse-047 version of Fuse ESB and Camel 2.10.4 and am facing same issue of character encoding of CDATA section in a String element while camel-jaxb unmarshalling.

Does camel-jaxb component has now support for the String element with CDATA section?

Thanks in advance